From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 25 14:26:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF28524 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-pd0-f177.google.com (mail-pd0-f177.google.com [209.85.192.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C765F283 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:26:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f177.google.com with SMTP id y14so2505248pdi.8 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:26:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=W2rOmfhSMF3JH4G0vsL2dROqsHceHZA6RzZ/UvL3Buc=; b=ddf3hg5FZNuGNJxdbjw9AUSUYi9c5wT8SyeFBnuw56smXybl79zlOU8DEVy2vtR8nS /PNiL99GKXcdGjP4zrJOCS3NSdUF9yJ0PFaH031VTvF3FmGgpE6XryhM4tfcxskGvuil 1d8+prp1HykGLSI966dJaWoPyGezWQI2gjXJU= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=W2rOmfhSMF3JH4G0vsL2dROqsHceHZA6RzZ/UvL3Buc=; b=SsGQYbxjW1frgvliRI3y6FG57uiOnDMOZhDH9vHKPFj5Isi6KH2cJeD0URYMjB29pV LvtA1TUoGSIbkF2zB2btHcOGRxeaD8BtOtwWKjdEgFcOMEaPx2FsMDFbb6mjFMXby2e4 NVomzJwCqVa8SwggLULn7AP5LHAtZSCK/N4/H5AtLsp4gWkbDcc37UaG6M8/hNwJhljU 7uHT3yMfiLYuRSSRHteolLGegjoNH4U68hKE9YeD+Elu3SBlpY9H9v0LiCX8FRPCNRDY 7pPebV11xn/T/F+zmG9K5MeKejfJuMvukNXM2SLIo352tBvhr7QcX/Jqsgo0VmLXyKnE SUIw== X-Received: by 10.68.134.133 with SMTP id pk5mr17468773pbb.209.1364221603032; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:26:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.66.139.162 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:26:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51505A60.8070809@FreeBSD.org> References: <515052EB.30409@FreeBSD.org> <51505A60.8070809@FreeBSD.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:26:12 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues To: Alex Dupre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkO4nBDu4IdGIUVZkqFj/vvAGY3+AGerANPa5Lh8UusIT5q3NtBJN5oXV6Smqm4Ele1SyM6 Cc: freebsd-ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:26:44 -0000 On 25 March 2013 10:08, Alex Dupre wrote: > Eitan Adler ha scritto: >> RESTRICTED does not cover "special permission granted to distribute" >> and other not-a-restriction things. > > And why do we need them? RESTRICTED is for !distributable, exactly as > the LEGAL file. We can improve RESTRICTED to automatically generate LEGAL. The LEGAL file is for a broader set of things than just RESTRICTED. It covers "no commercial use" which is NO_CDROM but not RESTRICTED and it covers "normally something else, but we have special permission to use the GPLv3". We have no way to express the latter in ports in a usable manner. > For particular licenses we already have a controversial LICENSE framework. I have no comment on the framework. It has many issues, but is not related to this discussion. -- Eitan Adler