Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 03:24:40 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: paul@FreeBSD.org Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages Message-ID: <199508291024.DAA14233@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199508281930.UAA10677@server.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Mon, 28 Aug 1995 20:30:14 %2B0100 (BST))
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* It's not up to us to require that end-users keep the copyrights * lying around after the binaries are installed. Whether we leave * them sitting in the source directory or move them to some central * place makes no difference to that point. What you are saying certainly makes sense for users who compile & install from the ports, but not for the binary package users, if I'm interpreting you correctly. There is no "source directory" for binary package users, and that's the whole point of this argument. * I think having a COPYRIGHT file in the ports area for each port would * be a good idea though so that *we* can easily check the validity of * a ports license since I came across the msql license buried in the * directory hierarchy. It won't be difficult if we keep a machine with all (ok, most) ports installed (i.e., thud), because Jordan's proposal will have all of them in a central location. I still don't like the idea of carrying loads of files that is already elsewhere on the system, IN OUR CVS TREE. Satoshi
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