Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:22:06 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port: x11-servers/mga_hal should not be labelled RESTRICTED Message-ID: <1112332926.6647.4.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <20050401033700.21348.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050401033700.21348.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 05:37 +0200, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi; > > I just tried the above mentioned port, that we have labelled as restricted, and > in the documentation file installed, and indeed in the website, it's clearly > stated: > > ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2004/readme_mgadriver_4_1.txt > > "Due to certain legal liabilities and for the protection of > intellectual property, Matrox reserves licensing rights to the > library and prohibits reverse engineering but allows free > distribution under any operating system. Matrox encourages members > of the open source community to freely distribute and assist in > the further development of this driver." > > There's also an mgadriver-4.1-1-src.tar.gz that someone should hack, but for > the time being it would be really nice to remove RESTRICTED for this port. However, the click-through license to get the files, which reads like an actual license, says something quite different. I'm going to stick with the more restrictive one unless someone can get some clarification from Matrox. (Yes, I've already tried.)
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