Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:11:23 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/linux-netscape6 Makefile Message-ID: <20020224183457.B22128-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <200202242159.g1OLxSX04229@aldan.algebra.com>
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Mikhail Teterin writes:
> > Allow packages to be built, but warn that they should not be
> > distributed.
>
> Is not this just as applicable to ALL ports, which have NO_PACKAGE set?
> (May be, almost all...) In those cases, the user simply comments out the
> NO_PACKAGE line and re-runs ``make package''...
The Porters' Handbook says:
2. If the resulting package needs to be built uniquely for each site, or
the resulting binary package cannot be distributed due to licensing;
set the variable NO_PACKAGE to a string describing the reason why. We
will make sure such packages will not go on the FTP site, nor into the
CDROM come release time. The distfile will still be included on both
however.
This port had not only NO_PACKAGE, but also RESTRICTED and NO_CDROM lines,
which I have left in place. The RESTRICTED line ensures that neither
packages nor distfiles will go onto the FreeBSD FTP sites. The NO_CDROM
line keeps them off the FreeBSD CD-ROMs. Therefore, NO_PACKAGE was
redundant, at least for anyone who respects the RESTRICTED and NO_CDROM
lines in the same way as the FreeBSD project.
Just having NO_PACKAGE without the RESTRICTED and NO_CDROM lines would not
capture what the Netscape license says, which is that redistribution is
prohibited. Redistributing the distfiles would violate the licence.
I often make packages for my own use, and found the NO_PACKAGE annoying.
--
Trevor Johnson
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