From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 5 21:06:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D886516A40F for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 21:06:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (it.buh.tecnik93.com [81.196.204.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F9F13C4A7 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 21:06:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6375117131; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:06:47 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:06:46 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Message-ID: <20070205230646.1b91a5c8@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_uAG9ILrC=6xKiPWEeL7juUv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: license change policy for patches added for ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:06:51 -0000 --Sig_uAG9ILrC=6xKiPWEeL7juUv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:56:24 -0600 (CST) "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > I am curious about if FreeBSD has a policy on licenses for patches > added to ports? >=20 > I am looking through the FreeBSD Porter's handbook and don't see > anything mentioned yet.=20 >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-pa= tch.html=20 > doesn't mention licensing. >=20 > The port where I have heard complaints about is the added copyright to > ports/audio/cdparanoia >=20 > Any comments? Any policy? >=20 > One idea would be that anything added to FreeBSD ports files patches > should need to be under the same original license. But I understand > there could be exceptions. One of the PR guides[lines] mention that unless otherwise specified everything submitted is under BSD licence. But yeh, given the mad word we're living in maybe we should make this more visible. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #40: not enough memory, go get system upgrade --Sig_uAG9ILrC=6xKiPWEeL7juUv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFx5xmBX6fi0k6KXsRAp0HAKCGbd0vJ4b0MI2nyHyvlxgtEMwsDwCdF4a+ PnegIoDwornoCuXBiH+Qz10= =Iqe3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_uAG9ILrC=6xKiPWEeL7juUv--