Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:59:29 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LICENSE questions Message-ID: <82BAD1BE-2A11-44CF-916F-8AA7B8877930@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4C15E342.8050600@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C15E342.8050600@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi-- On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > I'm working on adding LICENSE information to my ports, and have a few questions. A lot of my ports are ISC products, and they have the following: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/COPYRIGHT.txt Yes, that's the ISC license, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/isc-license.txt. > I also have dns/fpdns which has this: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/LICENSE.txt which looks like it could be BSD, but I'm not sure. I also have several others in this category. That's a 3-clause BSD license variant. > net-mgmt/p5-Net-IP has http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/COPYING.txt which could fall into the "perl" category, except there isn't one. :) Many Perl things are licensed under the same terms as Perl itself; ie, dual-licensed under the GPL & Artistic license. (The latter license is not well-written, and should be deprecated-- the GPL does a better job.) > x11/xscreensaver doesn't have an explicit copyright/license file, but it has this in the individual files: > * xscreensaver, Copyright (c) 1991-2010 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> > * > * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its > * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that > * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that > * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting > * documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this > * software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or > * implied warranty. > */ > Seems like BSD to me? That's a MIT/X11 license minus the all-caps DISCLAIMER. Regards, -- -Chuck
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