From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 19 19:50:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900D314E5F for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18357.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.37]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21731; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:52:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA88753; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:50:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:50:49 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Chris Piazza Cc: Andrey Zakhvatov , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/12690: New port: gperiodic-1.2.1 Message-ID: <19990719225049.A88591@mad> References: <19990718131117.A73284@mad> <199907190650.KAA23536@icc.surw.chel.su> <19990719192022.F87043@mad> <19990720170219.A89852@norn.ca.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990720170219.A89852@norn.ca.eu.org>; from Chris Piazza on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 05:02:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 05:02:19PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote: > > > > Alternatively, just add one copy of GNU COPYING to the base system and > > advertise its location, sans any symlink. > > The handbook says NOT to install the GPL. Chris, go look at rev. 1.94 of porting.sgml in its old location, and tell me _who_ added that little instruction. :) :) [That's also the commit message where I managed to misspell Eivind's name not once but four times ... don't feel obligated to point that out to me, though... ;-] It's actually something Satoshi said once on the -ports list. When I added that note, however, I also had in the back of my mind that we should add one reference copy of COPYING somewhere. Andrey's symlink idea is kind-of neat and works well with the idea of a more standardized docdir, but I'm not sure it's worth the bother. Other than files inside /usr/src/contrib and /usr/src/gnu (which don't count), the only standard location that I could find was inside the gcc info pages. We really should have a single copy in some referencable place since a lot of GPL'd programs refer to "the file COPYING, which you should have received with this program" and because of clause #1 of the GPL. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message