From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 8 15:59:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D1516A4CE for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4CA43D31 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:59:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (dsl-213-023-058-100.arcor-ip.net [213.23.58.100]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75E0832D78 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:59:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i18Nx9xp043978 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:59:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@kemoauc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i18Nx9vE043977 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:59:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 23:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <40256BFB.5040204@rbcmail.ru> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port restrictions: Redistribution for profit is not permitted. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 23:59:12 -0000 Constantine 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