Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:07:57 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> Cc: Andrey Zakhvatov <andy@icc.surw.chel.su>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/12690: New port: gperiodic-1.2.1 Message-ID: <19990720010757.A89272@mad> In-Reply-To: <19990720200835.A99448@norn.ca.eu.org>; from Chris Piazza on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:08:35PM -0700 References: <19990718131117.A73284@mad> <199907190650.KAA23536@icc.surw.chel.su> <19990719192022.F87043@mad> <19990720170219.A89852@norn.ca.eu.org> <19990719225049.A88591@mad> <19990720200835.A99448@norn.ca.eu.org>
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On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:08:35PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote:
>
> 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*.
Um, I'm not quite sure what you're arguing in favour of, here.
It wouldn't particularly bother me if all GPL ports installed a copy
of COPYING, but it probably would bother some other people.
$ find /usr/ports -name PLIST | xargs grep -l COPYING | more | wc
97 97 2558
> 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.
You're probably right, then.
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