Article 6SGNX [$] Arch Linux finally starts licensing PKGBUILDs

[$] Arch Linux finally starts licensing PKGBUILDs

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Arch Linux is popular as a basefor other Linux distributions; examples of Arch-derivatives include EndeavourOS, Manjaro, Parabola, and SteamOS.There's one small problem: the control files used to describe how to buildpackages for Arch Linux have no stated license. That creates a bit ofuncertainty about the rights and responsibilities for the downstreamderivatives. So far, that doesn't seem to have been a problem, nor hasit stopped other projects from assuming that reuse isallowed. However, the Arch project is looking to add some clarity byexplicitly assigning a liberal license to its packagesources. Currently the project is in the process of reaching out tocontributors to see if they have any objections.

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