Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:50:49 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> Cc: Andrey Zakhvatov <andy@icc.surw.chel.su>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/12690: New port: gperiodic-1.2.1 Message-ID: <19990719225049.A88591@mad> In-Reply-To: <19990720170219.A89852@norn.ca.eu.org>; from Chris Piazza on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 05:02:19PM -0700 References: <19990718131117.A73284@mad> <199907190650.KAA23536@icc.surw.chel.su> <19990719192022.F87043@mad> <19990720170219.A89852@norn.ca.eu.org>
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On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 05:02:19PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote: > > > > Alternatively, just add one copy of GNU COPYING to the base system and > > advertise its location, sans any symlink. > > The handbook says NOT to install the GPL. Chris, go look at rev. 1.94 of porting.sgml in its old location, and tell me _who_ added that little instruction. :) :) [That's also the commit message where I managed to misspell Eivind's name not once but four times ... don't feel obligated to point that out to me, though... ;-] It's actually something Satoshi said once on the -ports list. When I added that note, however, I also had in the back of my mind that we should add one reference copy of COPYING somewhere. Andrey's symlink idea is kind-of neat and works well with the idea of a more standardized docdir, but I'm not sure it's worth the bother. Other than files inside /usr/src/contrib and /usr/src/gnu (which don't count), the only standard location that I could find was inside the gcc info pages. We really should have a single copy in some referencable place since a lot of GPL'd programs refer to "the file COPYING, which you should have received with this program" and because of clause #1 of the GPL. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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