Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:23:05 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: vanilla@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Default install of enlightenment violates Apple's copyrights and trademarks Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010201101317.10016A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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You may or may not be aware of this already, but it appears that the default install of the Enlightenment port on FreeBSD violates a number of trademarks and copyrights belonging to Apple in the form of the "Aqua" theme. It looks like, from reading the port Makefile, the Aqua theme is specifically added as a dist file, rather than it being part of the base enlightenment source. Unless you have obtained specific permission to use, and redistribute, these materials, you are doing no one a favor, especially not companies that choose to commercially redistribute FreeBSD (such as BSDi), or provide mirroring services for FreeBSD. This is especially true if we'd like to continue to build a good relationship with Apple and work with them to port over useful Darwin/Mac OS X features to FreeBSD. Also, the .xsession file installed appeared to look for enlightenment in /bin, rather than /usr/X11R6/bin. This seems to be a property of not having the EBIN environmental variable set; seems more like a bug/feature in Enlightenment than a porting problem, but it does lead to some breakage. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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