From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 02:23:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8276106564A for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:23:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1768FC13 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so2665869lah.13 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:23:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CBO0ENfvznUdhRDb04UrvDHyuXSKQ5Oo9TEOdrHlK6Y=; b=huYhgx68Q2/yGVCm8IfI9gSCYxiwY0g22SFDZ8mQDZnG6/1Sm1+LHBZHwNZODXwbKy 90iea6EtE4DWIzpXtgx4knsVGXsKDNd3V4NBxVTjwTN8EKWROIz/gGdsCqZwXyNdy4Yv pxUYpnLcEPvt/UM1XlD3WEmJO3tfEsklucCrA= Received: by 10.112.36.195 with SMTP id s3mr3628879lbj.72.1326767006114; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:23:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.21.168 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:22:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201201170049.q0H0nTjC065207@anthesphoria.net> References: <201201162339.q0GNdG1V064832@anthesphoria.net> <201201170049.q0H0nTjC065207@anthesphoria.net> From: Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:22:55 -0500 Message-ID: To: =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrb2xhIExlxI1pxIc=?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:23:27 -0000 2012/1/16 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 : > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:14:57PM -0500 > =C2=A0in > =C2=A0Eitan Adler wrote: > >> 2012/1/16 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 : > [...] >> > 3) Intentionally no difference between 2- and 3-clause BSD? >> >> I hope not. We should probably have a BSD2, BSD3, and BSD4 license. >> For now mark it with a comment (or offer a patch to the db file too) > > Ok. What should happen with existing BSD in that case? Leave it (cause some ports/configurations might break) but deprecate it. Note that I am not on portmgr ;) > I see, but does 'multi' applies to distfile which is just downloaded > and unzipped or to installed files (and eo ipso to the FreeBSD > package)? > > Anyway, it wasn't clear from the bsd.licenses.mk that we should use > 'multi' in situations of 'any later version'. This means that all > licensing info of eg. GPL2+ ports must be updated when GPL4 appears... I am not certain about this. >> Putting something in the Public Domain doesn't work in any meaningful >> sense and is not a license. > > converters/base64 is public domain (see COPYING from its distfile). > Do you mean that Public Domain shouldn't be added to the licenses > database? NetBSD has it. This list is the wrong location to discuss this issue so any followup should happen off-list. --=20 Eitan Adler