Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:22:55 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrb2xhIExlxI1pxIc=?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=dEo4kK74ZntD7eF-vdTeurddX2p0XrfCcAtNVdE5eTA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201201170049.q0H0nTjC065207@anthesphoria.net> References: <201201162339.q0GNdG1V064832@anthesphoria.net> <CAF6rxg=N1OcJOyfg40K8FkuzbtmS8s_R8v7VCLOCapzfmWQAtQ@mail.gmail.com> <201201170049.q0H0nTjC065207@anthesphoria.net>
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2012/1/16 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net>: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:14:57PM -0500 > =C2=A0in <CAF6rxg=3DN1OcJOyfg40K8FkuzbtmS8s_R8v7VCLOCapzfmWQAtQ@mail.gmai= l.com> > =C2=A0Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > >> 2012/1/16 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net>: > [...] >> > 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
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