From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 13 1:32:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF48E37B402 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.14.162] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16l57r-0003Ks-00 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:32:51 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16l57e-000Bon-00; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:32:38 +0000 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:32:38 +0000 From: Ceri To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: naddy@mips.inka.de Subject: Re: /usr/ports/LEGAL Message-ID: <20020313093238.GA45296@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-message-flag: If you can read this, get a better mail client Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: naddy@mips.inka.de (naddy@mips.inka.de) >Ceri wrote: > >> Can we assume that this excerpt from ports/LEGAL no longer applies ? >> >> bzip-* ports/archivers/bzip Some algorithms used may >> infringe certain US patents. >> Opinions differ. Commercial >> use could render you liable >> to unfriendly legal action. >I may have missed something, but why do you think that this no >longer applies? Apologies for those trying to thread this by Reference:, but I missed the reply (my ISP have half-broken my mail again, which is more annoying that having it totally broken). I thought it no longer applies since bzip2 is now in the base system, but looking again I see that the above applies to bzip, and not bzip2. My bad. Ceri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message