Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:38:08 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrb2xhIExlxI1pxIc=?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions Message-ID: <4F15C010.6010707@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F1561FE.5080801@gmail.com> References: <201201162339.q0GNdG1V064832@anthesphoria.net> <CAF6rxg=N1OcJOyfg40K8FkuzbtmS8s_R8v7VCLOCapzfmWQAtQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F1561FE.5080801@gmail.com>
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On 01/17/2012 03:56, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: >>> 1) Will licensing section ever appear in the Porters Handbook? :-) >> >> Yes > > Is someone actually working on it? If so, and is there some sort of > target timeline? > > Back in 2010 when the framework was introduced, my general impression > was that maintainers where advised to wait with the adoption until that > chapter is written... Personally I think we should scrap the whole thing. It is an interesting idea, but the implementation has never fleshed out. It's also completely unclear what any of it means from an actual legal standpoint, and personally I'm not convinced that we aren't making things worse for the project by doing this. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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