Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 02:07:11 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distributing binary ksh93 Message-ID: <9ki9of$14dh$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20010803171730.A36738@moo.holy.cow>
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parv <parv_@yahoo.com> wrote: > according to q12 on... > > http://kornshell.com/doc/faq.html > > ...we (freebsd ports) may be able to provide ksh93 as a binary > package as long as we "make the license terms available to everyone > [we] distribute binaries to"... Actually, my understanding of the license text itself suggests that shipping the acknowledgement included in pkg-message is all that's required. The full license must be made available (or maybe even explicitly acknowledged) for the source to be distributed. Yes, AT&T's license puts more restrictions on redistributing source than on distributing binaries. The license text is impenetrable legalese, so I may be misreading things. I'm not convinced that the programmers at AT&T (as opposed to the legal department) understand it either, though. > ...and i have ksh93 statically compiled (w/ man page) from the ports > when the listed source file was available. that source file listed in > hasn't change yet in ports/shells/ksh93/makefile. Admittedly I was a bit slow in updating the port, but I eventally submitted an update on July 10 and it has simply been sitting unprocessed in the PR database since then. Trevor Johnson has finally committed it a few hours ago. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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