From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 30 8:55:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645D115239 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id IAA15758 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:55:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.8 1999/04/16 15:25:49 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id IAA25015 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:55:06 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-To: X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id LAA14576; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:55:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14323.34782.261532.675979@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:55:10 -0700 (MST) To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Question on COPYING file ... X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I have a friend who has written a nifty tape backup script (wrapper around dump, afio, etc.) and I've made a port of it (not yet submitted--still working a few bugs out since this is my first port creation) so we can use it too. I created a package out of the installed port and mailed that to him so that he could at least put that on his website along with his RPMs (he's from the "other" camp) until I could get this port committed, advertised, etc. He was complaining to me that nowhere in the .tgz file did I put a copy of the "COPYING" file we all know and love (sarcasm). He said I was breaking the rules and wants me to do so for the port/package. I told him that our handbook states "please don't infect^H^H^H^H^H copy more copies of the COPYING file into our CVS repository, thanks" and explained that lots and lots of GPL'ed ports don't "install" their COPYING file. He said "well, whatever, it's still breaking the rules." I particularly don't care if it "breaks the rules" or not, but I really don't think that it does given that scores of COPYING files are in our tree already. What is the story on this? I don't want to "install" the COPYING file to pacify him cuz I certainly don't want to annoy you guys (who explicitly say "please don't do this" in the Do's and Don'ts within the handbook) by doing so! :) What do I tell this guy? -Jr ps: please cc: me on the response as I'm not (yet) subscribed to this mailing list. pps: One note: he does not have "this is GPL'ed software, see the COPYING file" in his Perl source code. Is that his fatal flaw? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message