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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:27:05 +0300
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>, portmgr@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r471837 - head/science/szip
Message-ID:  <20180720172705.GN7353@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <20180702170621.GC7353@hades.panopticon>
References:  <201806061213.w56CDJdK068822@repo.freebsd.org> <20180702170621.GC7353@hades.panopticon>

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* Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) wrote:

I feel like by comment has been ignored.

Let me repeat, we have legal issue here, as szip license explicitly
prohibits certain software uses. I don't feel this can be considered
auto-acceptable, and the problems with dependent ports are not an
excuse. Some of them have szip support optional, and it probably should
be disabled by default.

> > Author: antoine
> > Date: Wed Jun  6 12:13:19 2018
> > New Revision: 471837
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/471837
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Auto-accept SZIP license, otherwise hundreds of ports are skipped
> 
> Please consider reverting this, you can't just mark it auto-accept
> for convenience.
> 
> The license is pretty clean in its restrictiveness, and ignoring it
> has possible legal implications for FreeBSD projects and its users.
> 
> Many szip consumers have szip support optional, and it may be set to
> disabled by default to fix package build skips.
> 
> --- COPYING begins here ---
> 
> SZIP Copyright and License Notice
> 
> The SZIP Science Data Lossless Compression Program is Copyright (C) 2001 
> Science & Technology Corporation @ UNM.  All rights released.  
> 
> Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Lowell H. Miles and Jack A. Venbrux.  
> Licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution by the University of Illinois' 
> National Center for Supercomputing Applications as a part of the 
> HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library
> products package.  All rights reserved.  Do not modify or use for other
> purposes.
> 
> SZIP implements an extended Rice adaptive lossless compression algorithm
> for sample data.  The primary algorithm was developed by R. F. Rice at
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  
> 
> SZIP embodies certain inventions patented by the National Aeronautics &
> Space Administration.  United States Patent Nos. 5,448,642, 5,687,255,
> and 5,822,457 have been licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution with the
> HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library products.
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law), 
> royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP decompression software 
> routines and underlying patents is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to all users 
> of and in conjunction with HDF data storage and retrieval file format and 
> software library products.
> 
> Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law), 
> royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP compression software 
> routines and underlying patents for non-commercial, scientific use only 
> is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to users of and in conjunction with HDF 
> data storage and retrieval file format and software library products.
> 
> For commercial use license to SZIP compression software routines and 
> underlying patents, please contact ICs, LLC, at 
>     Address: ICs, LLC, 2040 Warren Wagon Road, P.O. Box 2236 
>              McCall, ID  83638
>     Phone: (208) 315-2877.  Fax: (208) 634-7720.
>     Email: support@ics4chips.com
> 
> --- COPYING ends here ---
> 
> > Modified:
> >   head/science/szip/Makefile
> > 
> > Modified: head/science/szip/Makefile
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/science/szip/Makefile	Wed Jun  6 11:49:55 2018	(r471836)
> > +++ head/science/szip/Makefile	Wed Jun  6 12:13:19 2018	(r471837)
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ COMMENT=	Lossless compression library for scientific d
> >  LICENSE=	SZIP
> >  LICENSE_NAME=	SZIP License
> >  LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
> > -LICENSE_PERMS=	dist-mirror no-dist-sell pkg-mirror no-pkg-sell no-auto-accept
> > +LICENSE_PERMS=	dist-mirror no-dist-sell pkg-mirror no-pkg-sell auto-accept
> >  
> >  CONFLICTS_INSTALL=	libaec

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