Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:28:11 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        mike.unum@ps.ge.com
Cc:        portmgr@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: gb2ps-2.02
Message-ID:  <5C1ECAF4-5DA2-11D8-A5C2-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <DB5C7DE93F66D3119CAD0008C7E6403106501973@flmlbx01psge.geips.ge.com>
References:  <DB5C7DE93F66D3119CAD0008C7E6403106501973@flmlbx01psge.geips.ge.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Feb 12, 2004, at 1:14 PM, mike.unum@ps.ge.com wrote:
> What license is this software distributed under?

The file gbmain.c states:

  * DISTRIBUTION:
  *      This program and the font file are NOT in public domain.
  *      All the files can be freely distributed for non-commercial 
purposes
  *      only, and THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THIS PROGRAM.
  *
  * AUTHOR:
  *      The author can be reached by E-mail: william@cs.anu.edu.au
  *      or mail at:
  *
  *         Wei Sun
  *         Department of Computer Science
  *         The Australian National University
  *         Canberra, ACT 2601
  *         Australia

This license means that RESTRICTED should have been set:

--- Makefile~   Thu Feb 12 16:22:01 2004
+++ Makefile    Thu Feb 12 16:21:07 2004
@@ -19,12 +19,13 @@
  DISTFILES=     ${DISTNAME}.tar.gz  \
                 csong24.ccf.gz ckai24.ccf.gz cfang24.ccf.gz 
chei24.ccf.gz \
                 cfan24.ccf.gz
+EXTRACT_ONLY=  ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}

  MAINTAINER=    ports@FreeBSD.org
  COMMENT=       Converts Chinese GB (simple) encoded text to PostScript

-EXTRACT_ONLY=  ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
  WRKSRC=                ${WRKDIR}/GB2PS
+RESTRICTED=    "Non-commercial use only"

  do-install:
         @${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/share/chinese/gb

...and that /usr/ports/LEGAL needs to be updated to reflect this issue.
<portmgr@freebsd.org> CC:ed as that file requests.

-- 
-Chuck



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5C1ECAF4-5DA2-11D8-A5C2-003065ABFD92>