Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:51:26 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, nate@mt.sri.com, chuckr@mat.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port tgz for jikes available for comment (was Re: IBM Jikes) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9812100045550.3521-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <199812100637.WAA66981@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Matthew Dillon wrote: # Since IBM seems to be intent on ensuring that people read their license # agreement, I have a .if/.endif check for READ_IBM_LICENSE and @echo # instructions and abort as appropriate if it isn't set in # /etc/make.conf.local. Comments on that methodology would also be # appreciated (do I have to set RESTRICTED too ?) There are a number of ways to fix this. Probably the easiest is to require the user fetch the distfile manually, that way we remain clean regardless of what IBM does with their license. Two examples of how this is done are ports/security/bro and ports/security/fwtk. Marking it RESTRICTED at least for now wouldn't hurt either. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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