From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 29 05:08:22 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA25903 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 05:08:22 -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 FAA25894 ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 05:08:19 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA15165; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 13:08:06 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508291208.NAA15165@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 13:08:05 +0100 (BST) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508291148.EAA14852@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Aug 29, 95 04:48:35 am 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: 1011 Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Satoshi Asami who said > > * It's not a big deal I guess, just seems like unecessary work. > > Paul, please read my other mail. This is all about binary packages > that we distribute, and users who compile & install programs by > themselves constistute about 0.05% of my worries at this point. Yeah, I know, all I'm saying is that if they compiled and installed the sources themselves in 99.9% of the cases they wouldn't have the Copyright left online so why whould we worry about installing it when the authors of the original code didn't think it was necessary. If the original sources, *DO* install the copyright then whoever creates the port and package should do the same but I don't think we should worry ourselves over installing Copyrights when the original code didn't do so in the first place. -- 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)