Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:26:12 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues Message-ID: <CAF6rxgnReoHLA0w6FAwB8KRnrx0dhCgTz%2B-avPtDODEvn3E%2B4w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51505A60.8070809@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAF6rxgn1zN_5Gz_2Zrg7W==Q7SuLcXeWta0EE1Zkjq_jsPwtpg@mail.gmail.com> <515052EB.30409@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxg=DaYc_68AS-4-T6pJv1impWdB6Tv73m5Ld1W6nZuLQNg@mail.gmail.com> <51505A60.8070809@FreeBSD.org>
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On 25 March 2013 10:08, Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> wrote: > Eitan Adler ha scritto: >> RESTRICTED does not cover "special permission granted to distribute" >> and other not-a-restriction things. > > And why do we need them? RESTRICTED is for !distributable, exactly as > the LEGAL file. We can improve RESTRICTED to automatically generate LEGAL. The LEGAL file is for a broader set of things than just RESTRICTED. It covers "no commercial use" which is NO_CDROM but not RESTRICTED and it covers "normally something else, but we have special permission to use the GPLv3". We have no way to express the latter in ports in a usable manner. > For particular licenses we already have a controversial LICENSE framework. I have no comment on the framework. It has many issues, but is not related to this discussion. -- Eitan Adler
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