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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: ports policy
To: fjoe@FreeBSD.ORG (Max Khon)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:54:50 +0300 (EEST)
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In-Reply-To: <20011009063033.A45996@hub.freebsd.org> from "Max Khon" at Oct 09, 2001 06:30:33 AM
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> 
> hi, there!
> 
> I would like to add FreeBSD native Oracle OCI libraries to ports/ collection
> (e.g. for DBD::Oracle etc.) but I do not know where they were taken from and
> whether it is legal to distribute them.
> What is the policy WRT such ports?

In general you should try to be at the safe side - i.e. avoid adding
things with unknown origin and license terms. It is why we have
ports/LEGAL file in the first place. There are two main goals:

1. User should know when he/she installs software with restrictive
   license to be able to act accordingly;

2. commercial distributors of the value-added products (e.g. FreeBSD
   CD sets, etc) should have a way to distinguish packages that could
   be legally redistributed for a fee from those that could not.

I would suggest you to clarify license terms for the above mentioned
software and only then add it into collection.


-Maxim

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