From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 11 16:47:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41FE14C84; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp1443.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.226.99]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09510; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:51:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA10219; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:45:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:45:05 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Kris Kennaway Cc: John Reynolds~ , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on COPYING file ... Message-ID: <19991011194505.A10180@mad> References: <19991010135315.A13228@ppp5835.on.bellglobal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:00:05AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:00:05AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > That's good. If he does still want the COPYING file included, go > > ahead; it's an easy way to avoid some needless antagonism with the > > rest of the world. Yours wouldn't be the only port doing it. > > The question was with the binary package, not the port. There are probably I think that was the question I answered. :) > packages which install this form of gnu droppings, but they don't have to > (and probably shouldn't, per the handbook). The source (i.e. distfile) > needs to include it. The purpose of the handbook is not to cause software authors to hate us. From what John says, the author has more-or-less seen some light in this particular case, but if an author asks that his software be distributed in such and such a manner, then we should respect this (within reason). > always make that source available. So /usr/src is fine.. /usr/src != /usr/ports/x/x/work/ -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message