From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 03:29:46 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 56B75106564A for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 03:29:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thebeelzebubtrigger@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f175.google.com (mail-yw0-f175.google.com [209.85.211.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5218FC16 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 03:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh5 with SMTP id 5so4904078ywh.13 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 20:29:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=KWSaqfsrccEX1HLBhHuC9xPFjCnqF2CIBGMg8kbQAWs=; b=poT0eTvY/IEqMEYX3e+AWOvlJWliIwxyBXlYcGQPrLskYpXg/dE4t7EijxDRIJX44+ 4f4hn0eJSwNkOgUBEMSir+0hijaOhTPx8iDPHh1baQhreZRcsZYgi76+1ZU9JBbtnsLY Gu+GhEPtzBfvkrDKodTAT41+opxbji4inWlNo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=rB4OMt4YnQMmqLT9wpxgtFMMNBBGyFJbwjbsiWOFrtGJChI7wbEFo7SfQCSErG1acg NWAF9gTaGBq1vL+PtvyJFJdf1cO6DeEmTJqIQllUi/IVUSlGCmgCJKUjwB0S0dGFNVz+ PL5oX/S2T243cDrmcKmRYjSt0BZ+mzl1JAqd8= Received: by 10.150.174.4 with SMTP id w4mr731342ybe.146.1274324575755; Wed, 19 May 2010 20:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from satcidananda.16x108.merseine.nu (adsl-152-81-20.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.81.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u2sm6187077ybh.3.2010.05.19.20.02.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 19 May 2010 20:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 23:02:49 -0400 From: Indi To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100520030249.GB66753@satcidananda.16x108.merseine.nu> References: <20100518224102.GH326@comcast.net> <4BF3D549.90305@dataix.net> <20100519185406.GA67403@comcast.net> <07FC36C8-5B95-4DCA-967A-8FAF4D062D3F@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <07FC36C8-5B95-4DCA-967A-8FAF4D062D3F@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: GPLv3-licensed ports 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: Thu, 20 May 2010 03:29:46 -0000 On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 04:51:30PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On May 19, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Charlie Kester wrote: > > > > The ports in the devel category are especially noteworthy, since (if I understand correctly) their license will infect anything > > built with them. > > > > Is ports/LEGAL prominent enough? Should I also add something to the pkg-descr? > > > As an end-user I don't care about GPLv3 other than from a philosophical stance; but using GPLv3 with FreeBSD as an employee is a non-starter, so that's a good primary reason for the wiki page I think. > This data should really be inside the Makefile or something similar to CATEGORIES, etc like Gentoo Linux does (at least you know what you're getting before you install a package or port). That way other non-permissive licenses could be audited before the package is installed and someone could make a decision as to whether or not they can install it either because of licensing constraints, export issues, or the like... I'd go a step beyond that and suggest that GPL-licensed ports should have an EULA requiring the user to type yes or no, like parts of java and some other restrictively-licensed things. -- Indulekha Sharpe