From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 19 22: 6:52 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 CA59915086 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:06:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18333.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.13]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA24225; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:09:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA04628; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:07:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:07:57 -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: <19990720010757.A89272@mad> References: <19990718131117.A73284@mad> <199907190650.KAA23536@icc.surw.chel.su> <19990719192022.F87043@mad> <19990720170219.A89852@norn.ca.eu.org> <19990719225049.A88591@mad> <19990720200835.A99448@norn.ca.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990720200835.A99448@norn.ca.eu.org>; from Chris Piazza on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:08:35PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:08:35PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote: > > I guess it makes sense to have one copy in the system, though > I don't really see the need except maybe saving a bit of > disk space. Actually that's losing itif all ports followed that > Don't *grin*. Um, I'm not quite sure what you're arguing in favour of, here. It wouldn't particularly bother me if all GPL ports installed a copy of COPYING, but it probably would bother some other people. $ find /usr/ports -name PLIST | xargs grep -l COPYING | more | wc 97 97 2558 > AFAIK (I haven't looked at it in a while..) the GPL doesn't say you have > to install the license, just distribute it with the source. You're probably right, then. -- 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