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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2018 20:06:21 +0300
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r471837 - head/science/szip
Message-ID:  <20180702170621.GC7353@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <201806061213.w56CDJdK068822@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201806061213.w56CDJdK068822@repo.freebsd.org>

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* Antoine Brodin (antoine@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> Author: antoine
> Date: Wed Jun  6 12:13:19 2018
> New Revision: 471837
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/471837
> 
> Log:
>   Auto-accept SZIP license, otherwise hundreds of ports are skipped

Please consider reverting this, you can't just mark it auto-accept
for convenience.

The license is pretty clean in its restrictiveness, and ignoring it
has possible legal implications for FreeBSD projects and its users.

Many szip consumers have szip support optional, and it may be set to
disabled by default to fix package build skips.

--- COPYING begins here ---

SZIP Copyright and License Notice

The SZIP Science Data Lossless Compression Program is Copyright (C) 2001 
Science & Technology Corporation @ UNM.  All rights released.  

Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Lowell H. Miles and Jack A. Venbrux.  
Licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution by the University of Illinois' 
National Center for Supercomputing Applications as a part of the 
HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library
products package.  All rights reserved.  Do not modify or use for other
purposes.

SZIP implements an extended Rice adaptive lossless compression algorithm
for sample data.  The primary algorithm was developed by R. F. Rice at
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  

SZIP embodies certain inventions patented by the National Aeronautics &
Space Administration.  United States Patent Nos. 5,448,642, 5,687,255,
and 5,822,457 have been licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution with the
HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library products.
All rights reserved.

Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law), 
royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP decompression software 
routines and underlying patents is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to all users 
of and in conjunction with HDF data storage and retrieval file format and 
software library products.

Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law), 
royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP compression software 
routines and underlying patents for non-commercial, scientific use only 
is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to users of and in conjunction with HDF 
data storage and retrieval file format and software library products.

For commercial use license to SZIP compression software routines and 
underlying patents, please contact ICs, LLC, at 
    Address: ICs, LLC, 2040 Warren Wagon Road, P.O. Box 2236 
             McCall, ID  83638
    Phone: (208) 315-2877.  Fax: (208) 634-7720.
    Email: support@ics4chips.com

--- COPYING ends here ---

> Modified:
>   head/science/szip/Makefile
> 
> Modified: head/science/szip/Makefile
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/science/szip/Makefile	Wed Jun  6 11:49:55 2018	(r471836)
> +++ head/science/szip/Makefile	Wed Jun  6 12:13:19 2018	(r471837)
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ COMMENT=	Lossless compression library for scientific d
>  LICENSE=	SZIP
>  LICENSE_NAME=	SZIP License
>  LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
> -LICENSE_PERMS=	dist-mirror no-dist-sell pkg-mirror no-pkg-sell no-auto-accept
> +LICENSE_PERMS=	dist-mirror no-dist-sell pkg-mirror no-pkg-sell auto-accept
>  
>  CONFLICTS_INSTALL=	libaec

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