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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:47:18 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@goodking.ca>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, "Jason E. Hale" <jhale@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r306047 - in head/net-mgmt/arpscan: . files
Message-ID:  <20121018164718.GA3535@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121018155749.GA90996@goodking.ca>
References:  <201210180142.q9I1gsfl012566@svn.freebsd.org> <20121018014452.GC42327@FreeBSD.org> <1899853.OZWjZq66R9@mocha.verizon.net> <20121018041437.GA43411@FreeBSD.org> <20121018155749.GA90996@goodking.ca>

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:57:49AM -0400, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> Please keep in mind, BSD, ZLIB and a few other licenses include something
> like
> 
> Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
> 
> in which the copyright holder exerts year and name, see
> http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause as an example
> 
> Currently the licensing framework does not include a means of
> incorporating name/date with a template file for viewing, so it is just
> better to display the provided license file.

I see.  Indeed, our licensing framework leaves lots of room for improvement.
Do we have any plans for fixing these shortcomings?  IMHO it could have made
a nice GSoC project.

./danfe



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