[Bug 198510] x11-toolkits/wxgtk30 [MAINTAINER update] adds LICENSE

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--- Comment #5 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> ---
(In reply to Thomas Zander from comment #4)
> (In reply to Chris Hutchinson from comment #3)
> 
> My knowledge on licenses is far from expert-like, I just quickly scanned the
> preamble of the wxWidgets license in the tarball (the URL you provided is of
> identical content), and spotted these two paragraphs (excerpts):
> 
> [...]
> wxWidgets is currently licenced under the "wxWindows Library Licence"
> pending approval of the "wxWidgets Library Licence" which will be identical
> apart from the name.
> The wxWindows Library Licence is essentially the L-GPL (Library General
> Public Licence), with an exception stating that derived works in binary form
> may be distributed on the user's own terms. This is a solution that
> satisfies those who wish to produce GPL'ed software using wxWidgets, and
> also those producing proprietary software.
> [...]
> 
> [...]
> Most files are distributed under the GNU Library General Public License,
> version 2, with the special exception that you may create and distribute
> object code versions built from the source code or modified versions of it
> (even if these modified versions include code under a different licence),
> and distribute such binaries under your own terms.
> [...]
> 
> Since they say "most files" have this exception, there may be code included
> that is licensed differently, e.g. GPLv2 without this exception which could
> have consequences with regard to derivative works.
> I did not check for this, so I am not totally sure whether we need
> LICENSE_COMB or not.
> You maintain the port and know the project better than I do. If you are
> comfortable with the single LICENSE clause, it may be okay.
> 
> On the other open question: Why can't we use the preamble from the docs/ dir
> in the tarball instead of placing the license manually into FILESDIR?

Hello, Thomas,
I'm not an attorney either. :-)
I'm [now] also inclined to lean toward LICENSE_COMBO.
I'll have to re-examine Mk/bsd.licenses.db again. But
[as to LICENSE_COMBO] I don't think it includes wxWidgets. So I'll probably
need to modify this, to better suit it's intention.

Thanks for all your time on this, Thomas.

--Chris

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