From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Jul 27 10:52:19 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2E39AC057 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koobs.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-x229.google.com (mail-pd0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0873799 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:52:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koobs.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: by pdbnt7 with SMTP id nt7so50173915pdb.0 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 03:52:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:reply-to:subject:references:to:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rhJVutGG8YuV3uZPxHqHR9vpFXXn99g5elJ0/LyJqOM=; b=GRY08oViWlOB/23KH9wM+xuY7x4ksZtLGoHhmO3PoagDBDX5ElBombugZpPPW9r3IT cNWnWLilJ+qKDlvK1Aeg1BccLrhO33qb38LBsIClxFFw7GZhGRu+DHmzUrDXJZxIGoCa LzDi++ZHYFY7xVSsIhqHl0MDY2VM2UXfKB2dP92Wom5yKM375TKuPuFZCGl9SM9Uv+S4 e9JR/a5suTefXxXW3Amnx3TROZ0btvBZVWpln1dMTCltk4TQnAoLPibnnC8UqR7JTkNZ Mgipljc7U6Yv2GThrq7MXYZxy2dKqM6JWhLwRpqKPVllhB/ib0GgU2naGoM4U21G6PWO yI9g== X-Received: by 10.70.130.199 with SMTP id og7mr67129831pdb.161.1437994338549; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 03:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:44b8:31ae:7b01::9? (2001-44b8-31ae-7b01-0000-0000-0000-0009.static.ipv6.internode.on.net. [2001:44b8:31ae:7b01::9]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u16sm17882284pdl.71.2015.07.27.03.52.15 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Jul 2015 03:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Kubilay Kocak Reply-To: koobs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: help categorise license References: <201507270859.t6R8xSL3093427@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> <55B5FBB3.8020805@gmail.com> To: Vitaly Magerya , mexas@bris.ac.uk, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Kubilay Kocak X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55B60D5B.8010902@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:52:11 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55B5FBB3.8020805@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:52:19 -0000 On 27/07/2015 7:36 PM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > On 2015-07-27 11:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> I'm making a port of http://netlib.org/math. >> Their license looks like BSD2CLAUSE, but can >> somebody please check: >> http://netlib.org/math/license.htm > > That link should end with ".html", not ".htm". In any case, the license > seems identical to the 3-clause BSD [1,2] (note the "Neither the name of > ... may be used to endorse or promote ..." part). > > (Also note that our license framework should probably be scrapped > entirely, because it is ambiguous and undocumented). Or it could just be made less ambiguous and documented. Otherwise, we should scrap entirely all other things that are also ambiguous and undocumented. I imagine this will be a large list, and include large parts of the kernel.