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[PATCH 1/1] gnu: Add strongswan.

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: adam <at> vany.ca, 28973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: ludo <at> gnu.org
Subject: [bug#28973] [PATCH 1/1] gnu: Add strongswan.
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 22:50:08 +0100

Adam Van Ymeren wrote on 15/01/18 at 21:36:
> There is one file who's license I am not sure what to name.
> 
> src/libstrongswan/plugins/pkcs11.h
> 
> The text of the license is:
> 
> "This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
> unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
> modifications, as long as this notice is preserved."
> 
> Debian listed this as "MIT" but I don't believe that is correct.  I
> can't find text of any "MIT" license like this, and it doesn't match the
> expat license either.

There's always the non-copyleft procedure for uncommon (but free)
licences that don't have their own entry.

Is that the entire licence text? It sounds strange to me (exception to
what?). I'm obviously not clever enough to be a lawyer.

Yay,

T G-R

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