From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 23:33:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F2E16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:33:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from b.mail.sonic.net (b.mail.sonic.net [64.142.19.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D2B43D48 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:33:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from milo@cyberlifelabs.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (209-204-178-103.dsl.static.sonic.net [209.204.178.103]) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j0RNXMsk007292 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:33:22 -0800 Message-ID: <41F97A42.8020406@cyberlifelabs.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:33:22 -0800 From: Milo Hyson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: License links in the ports pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:33:23 -0000 On the pages that list ports information (e.g. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html), I'm thinking it would be nice to have a link next to description, sources, etc. to a package's license. Granted, with so many thousands of ports, it's not something that's going to happen overnight. However, it could be an invaluable tool for people who are considering the use of a particular product but want to first ensure they're OK with the licensing terms. Perhaps even better would be to put the link down near the "Requires" and "Also listed in" items, and have the anchor text itself be a short phrase identifying the type of license (e.g. GPL, Mozilla, etc.). That way, people can see at a glance what general kind of license is employed, and those who want to read the actual text can follow the link. Just a thought. :) -- Milo Hyson Chief Scientist CyberLife Labs