Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:26:45 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> To: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drop of portindex Message-ID: <4148DDC5.403@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040915175615.11c92103@zork> References: <20040915093120.3067472e@dolphin.local.net> <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com> <200409151833.55714.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040915175615.11c92103@zork>
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Robin Schoonover wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:33:54 +0200 > Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wrote: > >>Yes, that concerns me as well. One thing that surely can be learnt >>from this episode is that ports committers (not excluding myself here) >>need to be more careful about the licensing situation of software >>before committing it to ports (I was told previous version of >>portindex had stuff like "(c) 2004 Radim Kolar, GPL" in one source >>file and "public domain" in another, but no general license attached >>to the whole package). >> > > > Just to continue the confusion, (on his site) he also listed the > software on his site as being distributed as "Open Source" with a link > to the OSI site. Before uninstalling it, I checked out the python files. There are six files included in the package. Two say "GPL v2" (freebsdports.py, updatereadmes.py) One says "# (c) Radim Kolar 2004, GPL" (indexer.py) One says "Public Domain" (bsdpkg.py) The remaining two have no hint of a copyright notice. Clearly the author intended to distribute the code under the GPL. However, not being a lawyer and all, I wouldn't want to stake anything on the fact that what little copyright notice was given amounts to actual license terms. Of course, the author clearly doesn't want his software distributed, so it would (IMO) violate the spirit of community software development to go against his wishes, but the legal footing for the package is pretty confusing. --Mike
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