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Date:      Fri, 9 Sep 2016 08:35:58 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r421549 - in head: . Mk
Message-ID:  <20160909083558.GA79819@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <99cd3ec3-da27-f989-97c2-c009ea80c37c@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201609081315.u88DF6vL044982@repo.freebsd.org> <190e2ef5-0f8c-efc3-bca1-7e5b541d3733@FreeBSD.org> <20160909062630.hofrsvjajt2wcel4@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <99cd3ec3-da27-f989-97c2-c009ea80c37c@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 06:29:33PM +1000, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 9/09/2016 4:26 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > In both case that means there is NO license and then we should not
> > distribute them at all.
> 
> There are cases where software has no license, the author says so, but
> they mean, and/or say 'free to do with what you please'. This is neither
> NONE, nor undefined (in terms of the 'terms'), nor PD, nor
> 'empty(LICENSE)'.

That's why I prefer something along UNCLEAR/MOOT/VAGUE/CONTROVERSIAL/etc.
to cover all those "weird" cases and be done with it.

./danfe



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