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Date:      Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:52:48 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/cdb - Imported sources 
Message-ID:  <21211.900967968@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jul 1998 04:17:10 PDT." <199807201117.EAA17847@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 

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Satoshi Asami wrote in message ID
<199807201117.EAA17847@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>:
>  *   Import of CDB 0.55, a lightweight database package from D. J. Bernstein
> 
> This port has this set:
> 
>   NO_PACKAGE=     "Very unclear copyright information"
> 
> Do you really mean it's just not packageable (meaning no binary
> redistribution, no modifications, etc.) or it's not redistributable?
> In the latter case, you should use NO_CDROM or RESTRICTED.
> 
> Also, the entry is missing from ports/LEGAL. :)

I was kinda hoping someone with a better understanding of copyright
law would step in and correct me. As I understand it right now,
it can only be distributed in the source tarball. I could be mistaken,
which is why I put that rather unhappy comment in... 

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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