From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Oct 28 16:45:05 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E67C24DCE for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vlad-fbsd@acheronmedia.com) Received: from mail.irealone.com (fawn.irealone.com [IPv6:2001:1af8:4010:a07b:10::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39D93E4E for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vlad-fbsd@acheronmedia.com) Received: by mail.irealone.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 4C76661258; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:45:01 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=acheronmedia.com; s=mail; t=1477673101; bh=xxzfQzl7ggdnWZMt1lbxVonKJ2Ab3xFaq4o9J0Sy9Mg=; h=To:Subject:Date:From:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=IyMyr6NqG6cbyPoPiExZ/SJ93SIxOVf5MWW3YaHpZHzLYQb+Wf7FaV1R8y2/7LXij twSEOhg7N3Rg4xAfExTMeq4CwOWQqnKfbFFJ5JWHCCQeM3ndhvmyfSYh13OB3lPXOC 6EAICb1LpvAA6EDcVCgBBVEc61l9y/4bZzDJhdrM= To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/subsonic-standalone license X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:rcube.php MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:45:01 +0200 From: "Vlad K." Organization: Acheron Media In-Reply-To: <156461CF-298B-4C55-B36F-91BE4EE096D9@lastsummer.de> References: <25221A70-7B8F-4D10-AEEB-054FA7D58B0D@lastsummer.de> <943D0C76-1890-415C-BE61-4083E97F8635@lastsummer.de> <156461CF-298B-4C55-B36F-91BE4EE096D9@lastsummer.de> Message-ID: X-Sender: vlad-fbsd@acheronmedia.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:45:05 -0000 On 2016-10-28 18:38, Franco Fichtner wrote: > > I was talking about www/subsonic, sorry for the confusion: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213298 This bug shows the discussion I had with the Subsonic maintainer (who is, technically, until that patch is committed, still a maintainer) and carries the whole context. In short, the author of Subsonic has to specify what is the license of his product and include appropriate license in both the distributable/downloadable tarball and relevant source repositories. As it is at the moment, it all points to it still being GPL'd, despite his announcements on the forum post linked in the issue, because the downloadable tarballs, at the time, I checked, still carried a README saying it's GPL'd. A forum post is inadequate license change and the author should know better. His tarballs must include appropriate license whichever it is. IMHO, the FreeBSD ports tree cannot continue to carry that port, 6.0+ onward because afaik one cannot retroactively change the licene of previous releases, until the license is well known and port possibly RESTRICTED if the license requires it. For example see Oracle JRE ports that require you to manually download the distfiles and agree to Oracle's license apriori. -- Vlad K.