From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 8 13:37:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A6D16A4EE for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:37:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F33443D2F for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:37:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.202.196]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040208213729.YEBH10003.out008.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:37:29 -0600 Message-ID: <4026AC15.1080103@mac.com> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:37:25 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Constantine References: <40256BFB.5040204@rbcmail.ru> In-Reply-To: <40256BFB.5040204@rbcmail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [68.160.202.196] at Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:37:29 -0600 cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port restrictions: Redistribution for profit is not permitted. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:37:30 -0000 Constantine wrote: > As a university student, I am considering to be a FreeBSD maintainer of > some programming language developed by my professor. He has certain > restrictions on his work --- "Redistribution for profit is not > permitted." --- he does not want anyone to be able to change a few lines > in his code and sale it for profit. :-) [ ... ] > Is there any way to keep the original licence ("Redistribution for > profit is not permitted."), but still include the software on the discs > and ftp? Otherwise, there is really no reason to create this port... Hello-- You and your professor might want to review the following license, and see whether it suits your needs: http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/Licenses/NRL.html [ ...or: ] http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/Licenses/ENRL.html This is BSD-derived, but not an OSI-approved Open Source license[1]. However, this license explicitly permits FreeBSD, Linux et al, and CD vendors to redistribute your software as a precompiled package. -- -Chuck [1]: Your requirement to restrict "for profit" redistribution is in opposition to OSD #1. Without taking some care, such a restriction also prevents vendors of "free" software and CD redistributors from redistributing your software. Anyway, the approximate upshot of using the NRL or something similar is that: a) you won't have to set RESTRICTED in the port or a Linux RPM, b) people won't be able to resell your software without permission, c) ...which means that some people may not use the software at all, d) you won't be able to host such software on SourceForge or its ilk.