From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 14 3:59:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2BC37B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 03:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04B043E4A for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 03:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 17160 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2002 11:08:29 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Jul 2002 11:08:29 -0000 Message-ID: <3D3158FF.CEEAEF55@liwing.de> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:57:03 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrik Motakef Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Where (and when) to store licenses References: <87d6trgw0y.fsf@pokey.henrik-motakef.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Henrik Motakef wrote: > > Hi, > > A port I'm working on contains some files covered by a license (see > below) that asks to give credit by mentioning the origins of these > files "somewhere in the documentation, research report, etc..." when > one "incorporates [the] source code in one of your programs". A > thing that even the BSDL asks for, basically. > > My questions: > > - Do we have to give this credit, i.e. is "FreeBSD" or "the FreeBSD > ports tree" something that "incorporates" the source files in this > regard? IMHO you have to give this credit. > - If we give credit (which would be a nice thing even if not strictly > necessary, IMHO), where does it go? In this case, the notice is > included in the comments of some .h-files. Sould one of these files > -- or just the comment containing the license -- go to, say, > ${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PORTNAME}? There is nothing else that would go samba puts it licenses to /usr/local/share/doc/samba/, so I think doing so is ok. > there, only man pages and examples. How about ${NOPORTDOCS}? Isn't it belonging to the port? I think it does. As far I have understand your problem, you use sth. hard work from another one to do what you do. That person simply requires - if you use his/her work - to include his name somewhere in the source / doc of your result. I think that is an important part of your result. Kind regards Jens > Thanks for clarification > Henrik > > -------------- > > The port I'm talking about is btparse, a BibTeX parser > (http://starship.python.net/~gward/btOOL/). It is mostly GPLed, some > files in an examples directory are LGPLed, and it incorporates some > files from PCCTS, the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set. The > latter contain the following text (which is mentioned as something to > look at in btparse's README): > > * SOFTWARE RIGHTS > * > * We reserve no LEGAL rights to the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool > * Set (PCCTS) -- PCCTS is in the public domain. An individual or > * company may do whatever they wish with source code distributed with > * PCCTS or the code generated by PCCTS, including the incorporation of > * PCCTS, or its output, into commerical software. > * > * We encourage users to develop software with PCCTS. However, we do ask > * that credit is given to us for developing PCCTS. By "credit", > * we mean that if you incorporate our source code into one of your > * programs (commercial product, research project, or otherwise) that you > * acknowledge this fact somewhere in the documentation, research report, > * etc... If you like PCCTS and have developed a nice tool with the > * output, please mention that you developed it using PCCTS. In > * addition, we ask that this header remain intact in our source code. > * As long as these guidelines are kept, we expect to continue enhancing > * this system and expect to make other tools available as they are > * completed. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message