Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:44:37 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [legal] port with restrictive license Message-ID: <20100916184437.GD48415@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <slrni94f57.1rou.saper@saper.info> References: <20100911230652.GA1860@hades.panopticon> <slrni94f57.1rou.saper@saper.info>
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* Marcin Cieslak (saper@saper.info) wrote: > > software authors kindly agreed to remove revocation term (which worried > > be the most), however other terms are in question. Could someone review > > that license and say whether that's ok in ports, whether distfile > > mirroring is OK and whether we should modify it to make user download > > file for himself (like with java)? > > Looks scary, but there no limitations for redistribution, even > limited derivative work (if one constitues patches in the FreeBSD port > as such) is allowed. Well authors kindly changed license are removed revocation term from it. The only thing left that worries me is that US export laws stuff - I absolutely don't understand what that means and how we can/cannot violate these by mirroring distfiles/packages. For now I've removed all mirroring permissions from LICENSE_PERMS for EULA, so this should be safe. However, I'd really like that stuff explained by someone so mirroring could maybe be reenabled. Is I understand, to comply with license, we need to prohibit distribution of software into "(or to a national or resident of) any country to which the United States has embargoed goods", which we likely won't do thus we should not mirror the files. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru
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