Introducing pkgctl license In Arch Linux, as part of RFC40, we have… — Planet Arch Linux & News — TG.ME

Introducing pkgctl license

In Arch Linux, as part of RFC40, we have recently decided to license all Arch Linux package sources as 0BSD. Our package sources didn't have any license previously. RFC40 only specified that we do want to license our package sources but it didn't specify how to ensure this. As such, in RFC52 we decided we want to use REUSE to achieve that. NOTE: It might be a bit confusing that our PKGBUILD files also have a license field. However, this field specifies the upstream license, i.e. the license of the software that we package. It does not specify …

https://devblog.archlinux.page/2025/pkgctl-license/

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August 3, 2025 1.3K