From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 18 13:07:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6B516A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:07:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D5543D4C for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:07:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34F316759D; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:07:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.8.6] (lofi@vm-kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8ID7Nhd054414 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:07:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:06:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20040915093120.3067472e@dolphin.local.net> <200409152056.38900.linimon@lonesome.com> <20040918054956.GA75809@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20040918054956.GA75809@misty.eyesbeyond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1684911.mMQt4VexES"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409181507.09833.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Mark Linimon cc: "Jack L. Stone" cc: Robin Schoonover cc: Gary Kline Subject: Re: Drop of portindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:07:32 -0000 --nextPart1684911.mMQt4VexES Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 18 September 2004 07:49, Greg Lewis wrote: > Since writers of RPM spec files face the same issues > (keeping the tag in sync with the source and whether the tag is a > guarantee of licensing or not) I simply wonder how they tackled them > (if they did :). SuSE for example packages kdemultimedia like this (excerpt from=20 kdemultimedia3.spec): Name: kdemultimedia3 License: GPL Group: System/GUI/KDE Summary: KDE Multimedia Libraries Version: 3.2.1 > Anyone know if this issue has come up in Gentoo? No idea, but at the moment they deal with it even worse: The kdemultimedia-3.3.0 ebuild gets the license evaluation from an eclass=20 definition that's common to most kde module ebuilds, kde-dist: DESCRIPTION=3D"KDE ${PV} - " HOMEPAGE=3D"http://www.kde.org/" LICENSE=3D"GPL-2" SLOT=3D"$KDEMAJORVER.$KDEMINORVER" The catch is, this information is wrong. One of the central applications in= =20 kdemultimedia, noatun, is BSD licensed. KDE in general contains programs an= d=20 other material (such as icons, sounds) which come under a number of free=20 software licenses: GPL, BSD, Artistic, etc. What people seem to continually miss is that licensing is a legal thing. As= =20 such, it lacks the kind of standardisation and uniformity that would be=20 needed to implement a lean yet clean representation of licensing that fits= =20 within a packaging system. Cataloguing licenses in a meaningful (that is,=20 factually correct) way needs constant manual review and as you can see by t= he=20 example of SuSE, even not-so-small commercial players seem to lack the=20 necessary resources to do that. And, as has been brought up before, in the= =20 legal world, incorrect or vague information is worse than no information al= l. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1684911.mMQt4VexES Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBTDL9Xhc68WspdLARAoa4AJ0T6eF1gcshoO/4w2ph1cPH94R44gCglsoE jlKrxPCipdfLaz5Hb6GKdDE= =2c4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1684911.mMQt4VexES--