From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 16:06:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AAF37B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 16:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C3E43F93 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 16:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B44A66E3D; Sun, 25 May 2003 16:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7E42AE7; Sun, 25 May 2003 16:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 16:06:17 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Christian Weisgerber Message-ID: <20030525230617.GA24132@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: License issues (e.g. mod_throttle, mod_watch) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 23:06:19 -0000 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 04:37:17PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > What is our policy here? Do we want to strictly follow the authors' > licenses or is everything that is downloadable fair game? This is > not a rhetoric question. We should follow the authors' licenses carefully. You're correct that we don't collectively pay enough attention to this. > www/mod_throttle. This comes with a license so short I can quote it > in full: >=20 > This source distribution is made freely available and there is > no charge for its use, provided you retain this notice, disclaimers, > author's copyright, and credits. >=20 > Note that there is no mention of redistribution. That means > redistribution in any form is prohibited. Accordingly, this port > should be marked RESTRICTED. >=20 > www/mod_watch, by the same author. This has a more specific license, > see >=20 > http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_watch/ >=20 > Non-commercial redistribution of binaries is not permitted without > prior written consent. That means NO_PACKAGE. If the FreeBSD > project happens to have such permission and we don't care about > transitivity (do we?), then the limits on commercial redistribution > should still imply NO_CDROM. >=20 > I suspect a full-fledged license audit of the ports tree would turn > up a sizable number of problematic cases. Now, before I go out and > prod maintainers about individual cases I run into, I would like > to have some sort of consensus opinion or portmgr statement that > clarifies our stance on this. I would personally love it if you did some work on this. Kris --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+0UxpWry0BWjoQKURAqVDAKC4OXzLhNXXR2c9Z/d8VDK3Pw6MagCfRRX7 iqnFWH8GWdEfkAE6UdtPTKE= =4mgE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--