[Slackbuilds-users] commercial software buildscripts

B Watson yalhcru at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 21:54:33 UTC 2014


On 4/16/14, Miguel De Anda <miguel at thedeanda.com> wrote:
> what's the sbo/slackware policy on commercial software?
>
> upon first launch it typically asks you to accept
> their agreement and choose from a feature-limited free (as in beer) version
> or to upload the license file.

Not sure if there's a policy per se, but there's a precedent. I
submitted audio/transcribe a couple years ago. It's closed source
commercial software that works for 30 days only, unless you buy a
license... at which point you just enter the license key in the app
(no need to rebuild the slack package or reinstall).

Slackware itself still has xv, closed-source image viewer, but it's
fully functional (license says "Shareware, free for personal use only").


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