Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:31:54 +0200 From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> To: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> Cc: Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>, ports@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: LICENSE documentation Message-ID: <20160914093154.GM85563@home.opsec.eu> In-Reply-To: <a7230ebe-5200-badc-d11c-3240ca2242a6@gmail.com> References: <20160914081915.72e9cf14@raksha.tavi.co.uk> <9d155596-2137-c385-e557-32431e88c0f8@gmail.com> <20160914084935.GL85563@home.opsec.eu> <a7230ebe-5200-badc-d11c-3240ca2242a6@gmail.com>
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Hi! > On 2016-09-14 11:49, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > >> [...] > >> the license. If no license statement can be found in the sources or the > >> website, then no permission is given, and it's technically illegal for > >> anyone but the author(s) to use the software. > > This is not the case in every country, so your conclusion is not > > always valid. > That's true. Still, the inclusion of the program in ports collection > depends on author(s) giving their permission, otherwise users in > majority of countries FreeBSD is used in will be disqualified from using > it -- and FreeBSD would probably be liable for copyright infringement too. Let's take a step back: That is why we do introduce the LICENSE framework, but it was not a big problem the last 15+ years, so it's not that the skies will fall tomorrow, if we have a few missing for the foreseeable future. -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 4 years to go !
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