Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:52:13 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports: 1 unfetchable distfiles: shells/ksh93 Message-ID: <20051011145213.GA5714@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <1128985526.3009.111.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> References: <200510071001.j97A1c23029414@freefall.freebsd.org> <1128726978.3009.63.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <200510072327.j97NR4BN032652@bright.research.att.com> <20051010050828.GB17535@soaustin.net> <1128985526.3009.111.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:05:26PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 00:08 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:27:04PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote: > > > By the way, is it legally reasonable for the port to accept the > > > pre-download license on behalf of the user? > > > > I don't think so. > > Glenn Fowler disagrees with you: Then that needs to be noted somewhere in the port, preferably in some kind of file. (I don't know if we have any paradigm for this yet). My point is that we can't be in the habit of assuming such things are OK unless we have been specifically told that they are. An upcoming portmgr initiative is to sweep the tree for questionable licensing situations and fix them. Let's start identifying them now, including the ones where we have been given permission like this. mcl
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