Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:30:50 -0700 From: Joshua Ruehlig <joshruehlig@gmail.com> To: Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de> Cc: jlh@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Michael Zhilin <mizhka@gmail.com> Subject: Re: www/subsonic-standalone license Message-ID: <CAAhjGQs9m8k%2BV0XEPy_WSaQeFDuEPq6KY2JnwZ9hXVuzrmCPBw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <943D0C76-1890-415C-BE61-4083E97F8635@lastsummer.de> References: <CAF19XB%2Bs4okuDR0mUr2w-4q6M6e_1bYgcxwrDXf9vZscsQZnpw@mail.gmail.com> <CAAhjGQvvbbQDamrjGNG9zZM=Qr=RO5kQcqv_5Z7jeu-7XB=Eyw@mail.gmail.com> <25221A70-7B8F-4D10-AEEB-054FA7D58B0D@lastsummer.de> <CAAhjGQu7W5=_i6LERZ73cTLbYDkCX0NGXK3UzH=BCJhS-2k7Mw@mail.gmail.com> <943D0C76-1890-415C-BE61-4083E97F8635@lastsummer.de>
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Did you read the post Michael linked? Version 6.0 is no longer GPLv3 because he added some code that couldn't be added to a GPL project. I don't believe the maintainer dropped the project. If a user wants to use a previous version they are free to modify the PORTVERSION, update the 'distinfo', and build the port. Also the 'www/subsonic' port is still on version 5.3 so people can use that as well. I could not find a license for version 6.0. I checked the README.TXT that came with the v6.0 jar and it does not seem to be up to date. It says subsonic is "free software" and under the GPL. I think we should remove the LICENSE line from the Makefile, not sure what else we should do. Thanks, Josh On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de> wrote: > > > On 28 Oct 2016, at 5:53 PM, Joshua Ruehlig <joshruehlig@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Franco, what do you mean a maintainer drop? > > Also Madsonic, which is supposedly GPL based on their website is > available. > > The maintainer resigned, but updated to 6.0 because there were no > distfiles, > and the code seemed to be gone for 5.3 is now on GitHub: > > https://github.com/sindremehus/subsonic > > I don't know whether 6.0 is quintessential, but from a pure license > perspective > it seems odd that everyone now has to use a proprietary license with no > options > given even though we still have the original 5.3 *and* a fork which could > very > well gain traction of a port was added as an alternative. > > Just for the record, I know this takes work. Not asking for it to be done, > simply wondering why this happened the way it did. > > > Cheers, > Franco
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