Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:55:58 +0200 From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: yuri@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r479262 - in head/net: . charm charm/files Message-ID: <1593929.CD3nTdFNmJ@beastie.bionicmutton.org> In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwchEeFMGYx2hgETZn8DX1KtTESv22=Tfu8n7gY787YzQGw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201809082326.w88NQ4qk073471@repo.freebsd.org> <CAP7rwchEeFMGYx2hgETZn8DX1KtTESv22=Tfu8n7gY787YzQGw@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart11645319.qyMAtxoCaV Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:18:47 CEST Adam Weinberger wrote: > Same here. I don't think we should be hosting this software. Upstream > requires registration before downloading, and the fact that you had to > construct a complex do-fetch to circumvent it is pretty clear evidence > to me that we don't want a piece of whatever it is their license is > threatening. I'm not a lawyer. And even if I was a lawyer, I'm not your lawyer, so this does not constitute legal advice. This is not a Free Software license. It restricts use (e.g. clauses 1, 7). The software license is non-transferable (clause 1), and the software (i.e. charm) itself must be obtained from PPL (clause 2). So we can neither distribute source nor binaries -- LICENSE_PERMS dist-mirror and pkg-mirror are, to my reading of the license, explicitly *dis*allowed. In addition, using the software applies terms to the *results* of using the software, in particular related to (academic) publications using those results. That's really not something you can auto-accept, since it has an impact on your bibliography and you need to know that. Upstream doesn't actually seem to require registration before downloading, though -- there's just some weird click-through menus, and http:// charm.cs.illinois.edu/distrib/charm-6.8.2.tar.gz would have been a nicer download. Still, the license text alone should be enough to file this under "avoid". [ade] --nextPart11645319.qyMAtxoCaV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABEIAB0WIQTVFBoRsP760fy+Jisy7lRaPghTTwUCW5WI3gAKCRAy7lRaPghT Tx65AP9qAcJqsWqJrgVLBkKawE8RU1UFxqhbh6k8SjftzMAn7QD+KMrYRIuamKIm WEJM7YDQ2nATjprB7NPe5EEFTav3+7k= =JU0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11645319.qyMAtxoCaV--
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