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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:18:08 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
Subject:   ports/89203: Bugs and clean-up of /usr/ports/LEGAL
Message-ID:  <200511171718.jAHHI826006538@lurza.secnetix.de>
Resent-Message-ID: <200511171720.jAHHKMSk037250@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         89203
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Bugs and clean-up of /usr/ports/LEGAL
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 17 17:20:22 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oliver Fromme
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, http://www.secnetix.de/bsd
>Environment:

FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (ports collection RELEASE_6_0_0)

>Description:

In the /usr/ports/LEGAL file, the entry for "vtk" is missing
a proper description (third column is empty):

VTK-*                   math/vtk

According to their website at http://www.vtk.org the software
is basically under a BSD-style license.  The library contains
a few classes which use patented algorithms, but that does
not affect redistribution of the software.  Therefore I would
like to suggest that the above entry be removed from the file
/usr/ports/LEGAL.

Furthermore, the following entries don't exist anymore in the
ports collection.  I guess they're old ports that have been
removed, but it has been forgotten to remove their entries in
the LEGAL file.  I suggest to remove them, too:

/audio/linux-realplayer
/benchmarks/himeno
/devel/linux_understand_ada
/devel/linux_understand_c
/devel/linux_understand_java
/emulators/vmware_xf4mod
/games/bnetd
/japanese/acroread7
/java/j2sdkee
/java/kaffe-devel
/java/orion
/misc/nwrite
/net/DarwinStreaming
/net/djbdns
/security/md5crk
/www/Mosaic
/z11-themes/gnome-icons-cool-gorilla

Finally, there are two lines in the LEGAL file consisting
only of the word "[RESTRICTED]" (with square brackets).
They don't seem to belong to anything.  They should be
removed, too.

>How-To-Repeat:

n/a

>Fix:

Remove the obsolete lines from the /usr/ports/LEGAL file.
See above.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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