Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:10 +0800 From: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> To: Atz-Soft <atz@atz-soft.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Policy on new ports Message-ID: <45DC35EE.8060300@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <013f01c755aa$f18476e0$1e00a8c0@AlexMobileComp> References: <013f01c755aa$f18476e0$1e00a8c0@AlexMobileComp>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5CF8E4B90AB67699B08F3EED Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Atz-Soft wrote: > Hello! >=20 > I'd be interested in the policy about new ports in the following situat= ion: >=20 > The program has the GNU General Public License as published by the Free= > Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your optio= n) > any later version. > The program is not in the FreeBSD ports system but can be compiled on > FreeBSD without problems with approx. 5 commands. > And because of that the author may not want his program in the ports > collection. >=20 > So will the program be added even if the author may disagree with that?= My understanding is that the build skeleton (we call it "ports") is not a "derived" work of the original application and therefore you own the port itself, and it's up to you to decide whether it can be included in the ports collection. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enig5CF8E4B90AB67699B08F3EED Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF3DXuOfuToMruuMARA4wcAJ9357Du/owjz0XGXdg6T9SxV+j59QCfdzAH lM8b5+aAOZ3dLx4X4ldqTSs= =9eB3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5CF8E4B90AB67699B08F3EED--
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