Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:29:53 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, paul@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages Message-ID: <199508301029.LAA22085@server.netcraft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199508300855.BAA17783@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Aug 30, 95 01:55:00 am
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In reply to Satoshi Asami who said > > * Please do not install Copyright files with the binaries as it has no > * legal significance. > > Well ok so maybe it has no legal significance, but I think it's just > fair for us to recognize the fine work of the authors who made these > things available for free. > > Yeah I don't like shoving GPL in the face of the user to do that > either but many copyright notices include nice lists of > acknowledgements and stuff that I really like to put somewhere the > user can easily find. Ok, simple solution. Make this a make switch. People who don't want these files cluttering up their tree can set a switch in /etc/make.conf to off and then they don't get installed. For legal reasons, there'll need to be a way to override this switch so that binaries that require that a license get installed always has it installed even with this switch set. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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