From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 29 04:32:14 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA24626 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 04:32:14 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA24620 ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 04:32:11 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA14824; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:31:21 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508291131.MAA14824@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:31:20 +0100 (BST) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <14563.809639315@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 28, 95 12:48:35 pm Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1557 Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > > It's not up to us to require that end-users keep the copyrights > > lying around after the binaries are installed. Whether we leave > > them sitting in the source directory or move them to some central > > place makes no difference to that point. > > Huh? If the user wants to print out a copyright statement for a port > or package, and it's certainly reasonable to assume that the two > should be kept together, then it most definitely DOES make a > difference! If we just leave them in the src directory then they'll > get blown away by a clean. Ok, there's some merit in that but what I was getting at was if they'd built the packages themselves i.e. not used our ports system,they'd be in the same boat, if the original code didn't install it's Copyright then why should we worry about it? If I just grab say tcsh off an archive site and build and install it then nuke the sources, which is the most common scenario, then there's no Copyright left lying around anywhere. We're creating work for ourselves and cluttering the filesystem by doing more than the original code did. If the authors were keen to have an online copyright then they'd install it themselves and if that's the case then that installation should be retained as part of the port. It's not a big deal I guess, just seems like unecessary work. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)