Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:19:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: perky@freebsd.org Subject: licencing problem with linux_base ports? Message-ID: <20030703070806.L43330@blues.jpj.net>
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The distfiles for these are pre-compiled binaries, some of which are licenced under the GNU GPL. The license says we need to do one of: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) AFAIK we do none of these. The first solutions that come to mind are to mark these ports RESTRICTED or to arrange for the SRPM files (or their contents) to be packaged along with the binaries (perhaps with a knob to disable their packaging). Neither of these seems very appealing. -- Trevor Johnson
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