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 <j...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
