From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 12:07:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A57816DAEF for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:07:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C960813C46B for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF339EB5530; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:18 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([210.51.165.229]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hPR79rqN-PwM; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:12 +0800 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.32] (unknown [221.217.209.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28CCEB53E9; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:11 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc: subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=Q9HvWSisKxUbUocay7MIw+/JO9u/NEtfUEegCw/AYDY8rqKTLk1gbxeTcuMc9XhuC n58aNg6zsBd0KzOmI9iNw== Message-ID: <45DC35EE.8060300@delphij.net> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:10 +0800 From: LI Xin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Atz-Soft References: <013f01c755aa$f18476e0$1e00a8c0@AlexMobileComp> In-Reply-To: <013f01c755aa$f18476e0$1e00a8c0@AlexMobileComp> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5CF8E4B90AB67699B08F3EED" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Policy on new ports 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: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:07:20 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5CF8E4B90AB67699B08F3EED Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Atz-Soft wrote: > Hello! >=20 > I'd be interested in the policy about new ports in the following situat= ion: >=20 > The program has the GNU General Public License as published by the Free= > Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your optio= n) > any later version. > The program is not in the FreeBSD ports system but can be compiled on > FreeBSD without problems with approx. 5 commands. > And because of that the author may not want his program in the ports > collection. >=20 > So will the program be added even if the author may disagree with that?= My understanding is that the build skeleton (we call it "ports") is not a "derived" work of the original application and therefore you own the port itself, and it's up to you to decide whether it can be included in the ports collection. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enig5CF8E4B90AB67699B08F3EED Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF3DXuOfuToMruuMARA4wcAJ9357Du/owjz0XGXdg6T9SxV+j59QCfdzAH lM8b5+aAOZ3dLx4X4ldqTSs= =9eB3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5CF8E4B90AB67699B08F3EED--