Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:54:50 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: fjoe@FreeBSD.ORG (Max Khon) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports policy Message-ID: <200110091356.f99DuAF40284@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <20011009063033.A45996@hub.freebsd.org> from "Max Khon" at Oct 09, 2001 06:30:33 AM
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> > hi, there! > > I would like to add FreeBSD native Oracle OCI libraries to ports/ collection > (e.g. for DBD::Oracle etc.) but I do not know where they were taken from and > whether it is legal to distribute them. > What is the policy WRT such ports? In general you should try to be at the safe side - i.e. avoid adding things with unknown origin and license terms. It is why we have ports/LEGAL file in the first place. There are two main goals: 1. User should know when he/she installs software with restrictive license to be able to act accordingly; 2. commercial distributors of the value-added products (e.g. FreeBSD CD sets, etc) should have a way to distinguish packages that could be legally redistributed for a fee from those that could not. I would suggest you to clarify license terms for the above mentioned software and only then add it into collection. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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