From owner-svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Sun Sep 9 20:56:09 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B7B109E47D; Sun, 9 Sep 2018 20:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adridg@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp04.mail.online.nl (smtp04.mail.online.nl [194.134.25.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A66881231; Sun, 9 Sep 2018 20:56:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adridg@freebsd.org) Received: from beastie.bionicmutton.org (s55969a9e.adsl.online.nl [85.150.154.158]) by smtp04.mail.online.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E51E2800DF; Sun, 9 Sep 2018 22:55:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Adriaan de Groot To: Adam Weinberger 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 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:55:58 +0200 Message-ID: <1593929.CD3nTdFNmJ@beastie.bionicmutton.org> Organization: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: <201809082326.w88NQ4qk073471@repo.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11645319.qyMAtxoCaV"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-BeenThere: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:56:09 -0000 --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--