Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:36:41 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distributing binary ksh93 Message-ID: <9lj6l9$200o$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20010803171730.A36738@moo.holy.cow> <9ki9of$14dh$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20010805223544.A53819@moo.holy.cow>
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parv <parv_@yahoo.com> wrote:
> it would have been nice if the license tell-n-show process actually had
> used the pkg-message before extracting & fetching the sources. as
> it is now, license is extracted from the sources and/or is shown after
> extracting the sources...
The text in pkg-message is the "Proprietary Notice". It is not the
license. Those are entirely different things.
> ===> Building for ksh93-20010704.0000
> -pipe: not found
> package: /source/ports/shells/ksh93/work/lib/package/LICENSES/ast:
> license has not been accepted yet
>
> Enter y to accept, p to print, n to reject, anything else to quit:
> p
That is straight from AT&T so I presume it is okay.
> okay... i found that there is no package for this port;
My understanding of the license is this:
- We are not allowed to redistribute the distfile without the
recipient agreeing to the license prior to receiving the distfile.
=> Since we can't force such a prior agreement through our
distribution channels (FTP, CDROM), we are effectively forbidden
from redistributing the distfile.
- We are allowed to distribute a compiled package as long as it
conspicuously displays the Proprietary Notice.
=> The package which has the Proprietary Notice in pkg-message
could be distributed by FTP/CDROM.
Unfortunately the FreeBSD ports framework only provides the options
NO_CDROM, NO_PACKAGE, and RESTRICTED, none of which offers an exact
match for this type of restriction:
| package | package | distfile | distfile
| by CDROM | by FTP | by CDROM | by FTP
--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------
NO_CDROM | no | yes | yes | yes
NO_PACKAGE | no | no | yes | yes
RESTRICTED | no | no | no | no
--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------
AST license | yes | yes | no | no
In order to keep the distfiles off the FTP server and CDROM, I must
specify RESTRICTED, which also denies the package, although we could
distribute that one.
(FWIW, OpenBSD has explicit PERMIT_{PACKAGE,DISTFILES}_{CDROM,FTP}
variables that allow fine-grained control of this.)
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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