Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:43:22 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions Message-ID: <20120117184322.GA19794@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <4F15C010.6010707@FreeBSD.org> References: <201201162339.q0GNdG1V064832@anthesphoria.net> <CAF6rxg=N1OcJOyfg40K8FkuzbtmS8s_R8v7VCLOCapzfmWQAtQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F1561FE.5080801@gmail.com> <4F15C010.6010707@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 01/17/2012 03:56, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > > Eitan Adler wrote: > >>> 1) Will licensing section ever appear in the Porters Handbook? :-) > >> > >> Yes > > > > Is someone actually working on it? If so, and is there some sort of > > target timeline? > > > > Back in 2010 when the framework was introduced, my general impression > > was that maintainers where advised to wait with the adoption until that > > chapter is written... > > Personally I think we should scrap the whole thing. It is an interesting > idea, but the implementation has never fleshed out. It's also completely > unclear what any of it means from an actual legal standpoint, and > personally I'm not convinced that we aren't making things worse for the > project by doing this. How? I don't see the problem that makes things worse, I guess. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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