From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 15:58:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1681065681; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3855C8FC1A; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m2EFwUF11161; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:58:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.220.193] (dhcp-64-102-220-193.cisco.com [64.102.220.193]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m2EFxAu24595; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:59:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <47DAA0A7.3040308@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:58:31 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pav Lucistnik References: <200803141450.m2EEo2eU022317@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200803141450.m2EEo2eU022317@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/121670: [PATCH] Update converters/libiconv to 1.12 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:58:33 -0000 Pav Lucistnik wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/121670; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Pav Lucistnik > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: ports/121670: [PATCH] Update converters/libiconv to 1.12 > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:43:59 +0100 > > Licensing framework is certainly something we will need. Currently we're > looking for volunteers to work on it, so... > > Then we will need to inspect every file in every of 18,000+ ports. > > IMHO we could update libiconv now and deal with licensing issues as they > are discovered, but I am not a lawyer. I'm okay with that. This would not be the first GPLv3 port in the tree (see GCC 4.3). If someone complains that their binary links to a GPLv3 library, we can evaluate how to proceed with that. I am reminded of Gaim linking to OpenSSL. The Gaim people complained, and we removed the code. No bad blood. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome