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Date:      Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:04:35 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap
Message-ID:  <42F63113.5020600@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050807.100211.20316746.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20050807.153425.21897310.hrs@allbsd.org> <42F5BC19.5040602@freebsd.org> <20050807.211240.75793221.hrs@allbsd.org> <20050807.100211.20316746.imp@bsdimp.com>

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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> However, one possible gotcha in setting this up is licensing.  Do you
> know that your distribution of binary snapshot complies with the GPL
> which requires that you also provide the sources when you do this?
> The project already has some issues with GPLd ports when it builds
> binaries.  Are distfiles part of portsnap?  If so, then you are safe
> for the standard licenses...

Huh?  Isn't the ports tree BSD-licensed?

Colin Percival



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