OpenPKG Project
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License

Short Summary

In short, OpenPKG is fully Open Source software, although it is, as a whole, not covered by a single Open Source compliant distribution license. Instead is is covered by its own (MIT-style) license plus the union of all vendor licenses from the contained software.

Long Description

As mentioned, the license issue of OpenPKG is two-fold because OpenPKG technically consists of two parts: the packaging facility itself and the packaged vendor software.

The parts the OpenPKG Project wrote, i.e., all the 125,000 lines of package specifications, the additions scripts and add-ons, etc., are placed under a simple MIT-style Open Source distribution license:

Copyright © 2000-2007 OpenPKG Foundation e.V. <http://openpkg.net/>
Copyright © 2000-2007 Ralf S. Engelschall <http://engelschall.com/>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for
any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that
the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
copies.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THEIR
CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE.

All other parts, i.e., all the vendor supplied software on which OpenPKG is based and which OpenPKG packages, is still kept and re-distributed under the original license as given out by the vendors. In our case (because OpenPKG packages only Open Source software) these are at least all OSI approved licenses. Over 80% of all those packages are covered by the GPL, LGPL, BSD-style or MIT-style licenses.