Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:27:48 +0900 From: "R. Imura" <imura@cs.titech.ac.jp> To: alex@big.endian.de Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp/downloader license violation? Message-ID: <20000117012748B.imura@cs.titech.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <20000116164024.A6661@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <20000116164024.A6661@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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> Please see the ftp/downloader port. > > the LICENSE tells us: > root:/usr/ports/ftp/downloader.old/work/nt-1.07.1 $ less LICENSE > This program is free sources but not GPL!!!!! > You can't modify sources without agreement with autor > but can distribute unmodified sources. > > As far as I understand thisssss. Hmm. > > We _are_ modifying the sources with the patches in the > patches-directory. > > Including this port in the ports collection is the same as > distributing modified source, I think. > > So... is it ok to modfiy stuff or not? In this case, the author of downloader knows about our patches. (And I believe he doesn't reject them.) See: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15094 :) Thanks. --- R. Imura To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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