Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:01:00 -0600 From: Christopher Rosado <chris@tophnet.net> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, ports@freebsd.org Cc: perky@freebsd.org Subject: Re: licencing problem with linux_base ports? Message-ID: <200307031001.00915.chris@tophnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030703070806.L43330@blues.jpj.net> References: <20030703070806.L43330@blues.jpj.net>
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On Thursday 03 July 2003 05:19 am, Trevor Johnson wrote: > The distfiles for these are pre-compiled binaries, some of which are > licenced under the GNU GPL. The license says we need to do one of: [snip] > AFAIK we do none of these. The first solutions that come to mind are to > mark these ports RESTRICTED or to arrange for the SRPM files (or their > contents) to be packaged along with the binaries (perhaps with a knob to > disable their packaging). Neither of these seems very appealing. Why? The linux_base ports fetch the relevant RPMs from Redhat mirrors, not FreeBSD servers, AFAICT. A reading of the Makefiles for linux_base and linux_base-6 shows that the ports use $MASTER_SITE_REDHAT_LINUX, which according to /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk is a set of Redhat mirrors. There's no violation of the GPL here by the ports tree, as it merely downloads the files needed by the linuxulator rather than distributing them. -- Christopher Rosado
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