Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 04:41:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Passki <cykyc@yahoo.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: udo.schweigert@siemens.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Tenable Commerical Registered Plugin Feed Licensing Question Message-ID: <20050706114115.31175.qmail@web50305.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050706031805.GA32638@soaustin.net>
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--- Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:47:13PM -0700, Jon Passki wrote: > > Should this be marked RESTRICTED, MASTER_SITES be altered to > only > > go for nessus.org/tenablesecurity.com servers, or the project > not > > even worry about it? > > The latter is not an option. Just wanted to be complete... > From my reading they have two licenses for plugins: GPL and this > ... > "special" ... license. We (the project) need to change the > following > things on the latter ones: > > - The ports should be marked RESTRICTED; > - The MASTER_SITES should be blank; > - IGNORE needs to be set using similiar technology as in e.g. > databases/msql If using the latter license, setting MASTER_SITES to only their servers should be sufficient, don't you think? I didn't read anywhere in the license where the end user needed to manually download the source, only that the source needed to be downloaded directly from their servers. > Udo, please let us (portmgr@) know if this is something that you > can take > care of in a timely fashion, otherwise, we will look at it > ourselves. > > To reiterate: the project cannot be in a position to ignore > copyright > and redistribution terms that software authors impose, no matter > what > our own feelings about those terms or the pre-existing status > quo. Of course, hence the email (^_^) Jon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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