From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 19 20:11:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5AC114E90 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 2D8F2767; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:08:35 -0700 From: Chris Piazza To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Chris Piazza , Andrey Zakhvatov , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/12690: New port: gperiodic-1.2.1 Message-ID: <19990720200835.A99448@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <19990718131117.A73284@mad> <199907190650.KAA23536@icc.surw.chel.su> <19990719192022.F87043@mad> <19990720170219.A89852@norn.ca.eu.org> <19990719225049.A88591@mad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990719225049.A88591@mad>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:50:49PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:50:49PM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 05:02:19PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote: > > > > > > Alternatively, just add one copy of GNU COPYING to the base system and > > > advertise its location, sans any symlink. > > > > The handbook says NOT to install the GPL. > > Chris, go look at rev. 1.94 of porting.sgml in its old location, and > tell me _who_ added that little instruction. :) :) Ouch on my part :-). Is eivind's name that hard to spell? ;) > > [That's also the commit message where I managed to misspell Eivind's > name not once but four times ... don't feel obligated to point that > out to me, though... ;-] oh... > It's actually something Satoshi said once on the -ports list. When I > added that note, however, I also had in the back of my mind that we > should add one reference copy of COPYING somewhere. Andrey's symlink > idea is kind-of neat and works well with the idea of a more > standardized docdir, but I'm not sure it's worth the bother. I guess it makes sense to have one copy in the system, though I don't really see the need except maybe saving a bit of disk space. Actually that's losing itif all ports followed that Don't *grin*. > Other than files inside /usr/src/contrib and /usr/src/gnu (which don't > count), the only standard location that I could find was inside the > gcc info pages. We really should have a single copy in some > referencable place since a lot of GPL'd programs refer to "the file > COPYING, which you should have received with this program" and because > of clause #1 of the GPL. AFAIK (I haven't looked at it in a while..) the GPL doesn't say you have to install the license, just distribute it with the source. -Chris -- cpiazza@home.net cpiazza@FreeBSD.org "I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices." -Oscar Wilde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message