From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 03:39:29 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 B4DB7106566C for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 03:39:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f188.google.com (mail-qy0-f188.google.com [209.85.221.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE448FC1C for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 03:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk26 with SMTP id 26so6828177qyk.28 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 20:39:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qINTaa4JjegN5Zv1MJFVEY8EVTNPN2hdjkho+3cePuA=; b=EKjUydKnAn+22BLskkdAy3d8THMzB7/uucUrjidoLornC5SOL0FaAa6C+0yVV/84oR 96PIWM+TEeTa0LMcjlhXPOa25vd++2tPJciuy6HiiQh2UuyCt4yjB4oY/0ANk7F7an40 HRirtxvzjl5y9kcyRD5RU01oOv0wuhZ321VN0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=d9YSeoxpydNr2rxKx/abcEwxyCUaWhDrLbs+80fExzP8+FX7nisi8Dw2BqTrcZwfDf JGWvhH9YGJ0HRdXcRJZJiPbwerPrZthTuuICEcL822cg3QtpkIzkAlHHR/IBZ0QG5DTX 36VW6MLHBiqtoeB1/naXr/9p+XuVjNsx+XI14= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.214.147 with SMTP id ha19mr2053176qcb.90.1274326768614; Wed, 19 May 2010 20:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.83 with HTTP; Wed, 19 May 2010 20:39:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <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> <20100520030249.GB66753@satcidananda.16x108.merseine.nu> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 20:39:28 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Indi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 03:39:29 -0000 On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Indi wrote= : > 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? =A0Should I also add something to the= pkg-descr? >> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 As an end-user I don't care about GPLv3 other than from a ph= ilosophical stance; but using GPLv3 with FreeBSD as an employee is a non-st= arter, so that's a good primary reason for the wiki page I think. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 This data should really be inside the Makefile or something = similar to CATEGORIES, etc like Gentoo Linux does (at least you know what y= ou're getting before you install a package or port). That way other non-per= missive licenses could be audited before the package is installed and someo= ne could make a decision as to whether or not they can install it either be= cause 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. No .. that will never fly with the number of ports in the ports tree that are GPL licensed; I find the downloading the other accept before continuing logic to be highly counterproductive when downloading and installing ports, and I sure others do as well. It would be considerably more convenient if there was a license signoff for certain items because it would make things less of a PITA. Looking at pkgsrc, they have a variable per-Makefile, LICENSE. Determining what license a port is distributed under would be considerably easier. Also, if someone wanted to block all GPLv3 ports, they could effectively look for GPLv3 ports like so: .if defined(LICENSE) && ${LICENSE} =3D=3D "GPLV3" .error "GPLv3 licensed ports blocked due to site policy" .endif in make.conf, etc (or ports.conf like some folks have lightly tossed around on #bsdports and elsewhere). Thanks, -Garrett