From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 23:10:26 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 EFE511065670 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:10:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0C98FC08 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27026 invoked by uid 399); 14 Jun 2010 23:10:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 14 Jun 2010 23:10:26 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C16B6E0.7010600@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:10:24 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <4C15E342.8050600@FreeBSD.org> <82BAD1BE-2A11-44CF-916F-8AA7B8877930@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <82BAD1BE-2A11-44CF-916F-8AA7B8877930@mac.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:10:27 -0000 On 06/14/10 09:59, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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. Right-O, so can we/I add that to ports/Mk/bsd.license*? >> 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. Yeah, I guess I didn't ask my question properly. :) Can I use just "BSD" for the license in these cases, or is there a need for us to differentiate between this BSD license and the now-standard 2-clause version? >> 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.) My vote would be that we add a "PERL" category, but maybe there is a reason not to do this? >> 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. Oy, ok, so how do I classify it? Or am I correct in assuming we do not yet have a category for it? In any case, thanks for all the answers, very helpful! Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/