From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 16:59:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C0C1065670; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:59:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout030.mac.com (asmtpout030.mac.com [17.148.16.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFFA8FC08; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:59:46 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp030.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L4000817KJ6YW60@asmtp030.mac.com>; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:59:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1006140097 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5,1.2.40,4.0.166 definitions=2010-06-14_02:2010-02-06, 2010-06-14, 2010-06-14 signatures=0 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4C15E342.8050600@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:59:29 -0700 Message-id: <82BAD1BE-2A11-44CF-916F-8AA7B8877930@mac.com> References: <4C15E342.8050600@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LICENSE questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:59:47 -0000 Hi-- On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > I'm working on adding LICENSE information to my ports, and have a few questions. A lot of my ports are ISC products, and they have the following: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/COPYRIGHT.txt Yes, that's the ISC license, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/isc-license.txt. > I also have dns/fpdns which has this: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/LICENSE.txt which looks like it could be BSD, but I'm not sure. I also have several others in this category. That's a 3-clause BSD license variant. > net-mgmt/p5-Net-IP has http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/COPYING.txt which could fall into the "perl" category, except there isn't one. :) Many Perl things are licensed under the same terms as Perl itself; ie, dual-licensed under the GPL & Artistic license. (The latter license is not well-written, and should be deprecated-- the GPL does a better job.) > x11/xscreensaver doesn't have an explicit copyright/license file, but it has this in the individual files: > * xscreensaver, Copyright (c) 1991-2010 Jamie Zawinski > * > * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its > * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that > * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that > * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting > * documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this > * software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or > * implied warranty. > */ > Seems like BSD to me? That's a MIT/X11 license minus the all-caps DISCLAIMER. Regards, -- -Chuck