Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:40:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on COPYING file ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909301430390.20294-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <14323.34782.261532.675979@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, John Reynolds~ wrote:
> He was complaining to me that nowhere in the .tgz file did I put a
> copy of the "COPYING" file we all know and love (sarcasm). He said I
> was breaking the rules and wants me to do so for the port/package. I
> told him that our handbook states "please don't infect^H^H^H^H^H copy
> more copies of the COPYING file into our CVS repository, thanks" and
> explained that lots and lots of GPL'ed ports don't "install" their
> COPYING file.
It is under the GPL, right? :)
Your friend needs to actually read the license he's infected his software
with:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
All we have to do is provide for access to the source code together with
the appropriate license/copyright information. Since we provide access to
the unmodified code which includes the latter, it's perfectly fine.
Kris
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