What license tag should I use for TestU01 package?

Nicolas Chauvet kwizart at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 23:23:23 CET 2012


2012/1/31 Jiri Hladky <hladky.jiri at googlemail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure what license tag I should for a license which restricts free
> usage for non-commercial usage only:
>
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted without a fee for private, research, academic,
> or other non-commercial purposes. Any use of this software by a commercial
> enterprise requires a written licence from the copyright owner.
>
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/testu01/copyright.html
>
> Currently I have used:
> License: Custom (Non-Commercial Use Only)
>
> Is this correct?

Hi,

Are you using Custom in an attempt to silent rpmlint ?
Does that work ?

Because I don't see "much" interest in having the Custom word in the
License field.
Once that said that's suggest to read the package license to get a
complete idea of the rights and duties over the license.

Nicolas (kwizart)


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