From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 29 07:11:08 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA02637 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 07:11:08 -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 HAA02624 ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 07:11:05 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA15810; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:07:41 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508291407.PAA15810@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:07:41 +0100 (BST) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <22585.809701178@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 29, 95 05:59:38 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: 1180 Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > Like I said - we're doing something a little new here with the ports > collection and let's go the extra mile to make sure that it looks > entirely professional with an even GREATER degree of care taken with > every port than even the author might have dreamed of. Heck, we do > this already with a lot of intelligent installer scripts that are 10 > times kinder to the user than the originals were. Fair enough. > > > I think we should make a specific not in the guidelines about checking > > the copyright and copying it to a ./Copyright file so when a port is > > added we can go and check the copyright ourselves without having to > > Bleah. Automate it! Automate it! One field in the Makefile is all > it takes! :-) How are you going to so that. The actual license text can be hidden in all sorts of places in the original sources. I think we're talking about different things, or you've come up with some AI tool I've missed :-) -- 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)