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authorEmily <vcs@emily.moe>2024-10-31 13:49:37 +0000
committerEmily <vcs@emily.moe>2024-10-31 14:38:09 +0000
commitf465662a11ba4658e35ba9d58d6ede9e01a98ebf (patch)
treee874592cd0dd5f5bf7978a220ad50a52e0c9fc8d /lib/licenses.nix
parent_7zz: disable `uasm` by default (diff)
downloadnixpkgs-f465662a11ba4658e35ba9d58d6ede9e01a98ebf.tar.gz
lib/licenses: mark `watcom` as non‐Free
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diff --git a/lib/licenses.nix b/lib/licenses.nix
index 6ba244b88b82..291c66ea850e 100644
--- a/lib/licenses.nix
+++ b/lib/licenses.nix
@@ -1290,6 +1290,15 @@ lib.mapAttrs mkLicense ({
watcom = {
spdxId = "Watcom-1.0";
fullName = "Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0";
+ # Despite being OSI‐approved, this licence is not considered FOSS
+ # by Debian, Fedora, or the FSF, due to an onerous restriction that
+ # requires publication of even privately‐deployed modifications.
+ # This violates the FSF’s freedom 3 and Debian’s “desert island
+ # test” and “dissident test”.
+ #
+ # See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase_Open_Watcom_Public_License>
+ free = false;
+ redistributable = true;
};
w3c = {