Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 23:59:08 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port restrictions: Redistribution for profit is not permitted. Message-ID: <c06igc$1anp$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <40256BFB.5040204@rbcmail.ru>
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Constantine <cnst@rbcmail.ru> wrote: > As a university student, I am considering to be a FreeBSD maintainer of > some programming language developed by my professor. He has certain > restrictions on his work --- "Redistribution for profit is not > permitted." --- he does not want anyone to be able to change a few lines > in his code and sale it for profit. :-) This would imply NO_CDROM, since FreeBSD CDs are (potentially) sold with profit. Distribution by FTP should be fine. > I see that I would need to use RESTRICTED variable. In this case, will > the package still be included on the discs and FTP-sites? No, which is the point of RESTRICTED. However, for a "not for sale" license, RESTRICTED is overly strict. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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