Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:16:31 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: hiten pandya <hpandya@lycos.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: regarding gaim Message-ID: <20011025131631.A45289@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <1004040440017763@lycos.co.uk>; from hpandya@lycos.co.uk on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:07:48PM -0700 References: <1004040440017763@lycos.co.uk>
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Hi, On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:07:48PM -0700, hiten pandya wrote: > i am converting an application called gaim, which is for > chatting with people using different protocols, such as > MSN, Oscar, Napster, Yahoo!, etc.. > > I came across a licensing issue, the source code/program is > protected by the GPL License, If you're working on a port for the FreeBSD Ports Collection (i.e. /usr/ports), you should note that gaim is already there, in /usr/ports/net/gaim. If that port is out-of-date or otherwise not meeting your needs, you should contact the maintainer, jim@FreeBSD.org. There is no problem with the GPL for software in the Ports Collection. Only more restrictive licenses, like those prohibiting the distribution of binaries, or modified binaries, or redistribution of sources, etc. require special handling. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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