From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 30 03:31:53 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA24935 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:31:53 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA24911 ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:31:41 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA22085; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:29:53 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508301029.LAA22085@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:29:53 +0100 (BST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, paul@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508300855.BAA17783@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Aug 30, 95 01:55:00 am Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1085 Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)