From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 18:54:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B150106566C for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 18:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE4C8FC0C for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 18:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KPLa1e0060mv7h057WuBAY; Wed, 19 May 2010 18:54:11 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KWu81e0091f6R9u3XWu9bV; Wed, 19 May 2010 18:54:10 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 19 May 2010 11:54:07 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:54:06 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100519185406.GA67403@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20100518224102.GH326@comcast.net> <4BF3D549.90305@dataix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BF3D549.90305@dataix.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: Vim 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: GPLv3-licensed ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 18:54:11 -0000 On Wed 19 May 2010 at 05:10:49 PDT jhell wrote: >Adding to this bundle of madness... > >I believe that it would be best practice to keep ports/LEGAL up-to-date >with this list. > >Those who already have ports on a machine may find it more usefull to >find them there. > >Quoting ports/LEGAL: >"Some of the ports in this directory have restrictive copyrights" and >GPLv3 I believe certainly would fall under that category. Yes, I don't what the original legal concerns were that led to the wiki page, but I know that many FreeBSD users are wary of GPLv3. So it makes sense to let them know which ports are licensed that way. After checking the COPYING files, some more of my ports for the list: devel/gengetopt devel/libYGP sysutils/iextract sysutils/gaffitter The ports in the devel category are especially noteworthy, since (if I understand correctly) their license will infect anything built with them. Is ports/LEGAL prominent enough? Should I also add something to the pkg-descr?