Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 20:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Wardle <michael@endbracket.net> To: ports@geeksrus.net Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, michael.wardle@adacel.com Subject: FreeBSD Port: fam-2.6.8 Message-ID: <20020610030013.63733.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi Alan I understand that you recently became the maintainer of the FreeBSD FAM port. I am the FAM maintainer, and work on behalf of SGI. (Please note that I am sending this mail from my personal account. My work account details are below in my signature.) Last I knew, the FreeBSD FAM port had a moderate amount of extra patches required to build on FreeBSD, most notably a patch to provide a mntent compatibility layer. I am receptive to integrating any necessary modifications that will help FAM build natively on FreeBSD without the need for extra FAM patches in the FreeBSD ports tree (including the mntent compatibility patch). Hopefully this would reduce the work required to maintain FAM on FreeBSD, as well as providing a more consistent FAM across all platforms. Some of the current patches, including the mntent compatibility layer, fall under an "old-style" BSD license, which includes an advertising clause that is incompatible with the license FAM is licensed under, the GNU GPL. This means that I will be unable to merge those changes that have such a license. <URL:http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html>; <URL:http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/bsd.html>; <URL:http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses>; I made the previous maintainer and the author of the mntent compatilibilty layer aware of my concerns a few weeks ago, but have not yet heard from them. On the positive side, I believe the advertising clause was declared redundant in official BSD-based software by UCB a few years ago, so it may be possible for any old-style BSD-licensed software to be relicensed under the new-style BSD license (one without the advertising clause). If you are able to resolve this issue, then I see no reason why the FreeBSD patches can not be merged upstream into the FAM source tree. Thanks for your efforts in updating the FAM port, and I look forward to working with you. -- MICHAEL WARDLE SGI Desktop & Admin Software Adacel Technologies Limited <michael.wardle@adacel.com> <wardle@sgi.com> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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