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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:11:22 -0400
From:      Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@goodking.ca>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
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:  <20121018171122.GC90996@goodking.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20121018164718.GA3535@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:47:18PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 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 somethi=
ng
> > like
> >=20
> > Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
> >=20
> > in which the copyright holder exerts year and name, see
> > http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause as an example
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> I see.  Indeed, our licensing framework leaves lots of room for improveme=
nt.
> Do we have any plans for fixing these shortcomings?  IMHO it could have m=
ade
> a nice GSoC project.
>=20
> ./danfe

There is always room for improvement!

In private discussions with one of our ports contributors, there has
been some interest in contributing code to augment this shortcoming.

As for a GSoC, might be worth throwing my hat into the arena as a mentor
to try make it happen.


Thomas

--=20
Thomas Abthorpe		| FreeBSD Committer
tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org	| http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe

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