LICENSE questions

2010-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
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 I also have dns/fpdns which has this: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/LICENSE.txt which looks like

Possibly unbuildable ports reminder

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Fenner
Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A list by MAINTAINER is http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/ so you can easily check the status of ports that you maintain. In addition, the

Re: gnupg-2.0.14_3 + libassuan problem

2010-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/14/10 04:48, Matthew Seaman wrote: Even having replaced libassuan with libassuan-1, there still seems to be a problem for some ports: Yes, I fixed that shortly after the first update, thanks to QAT. :) I had tested picking up the new dependency for building the port, but didn't test

Re: LICENSE questions

2010-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/14/10 08:05, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Doug Barton writes: [...] Then there is security/libassuan which seems to be dual licensed under GPLv3 and LGPLv2, did we ever decide how to handle that? In one of the dual-licensed port's Makefile, I added: #v+ LICENSE= GPLv3 LGPL3

Re: LICENSE questions

2010-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/14/10 09:59, Chuck Swiger wrote: 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,

Re: LICENSE questions

2010-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/14/10 09:59, Chuck Swiger wrote: 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:

Re: LICENSE questions

2010-06-14 Thread Charlie Kester
This LICENSE stuff is beginning to look more complex than it seemed at first. From this thread I gather that maintainers are going to have to do a bit more than simply check a box. Here, for example, we see some well-known licenses that don't readily identify themselves as such. How can a

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-14 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/10 00:46, Marco Bröder wrote: I find it especially important to have a expression for 'version X or any later version' (for example 'LGPLv2+'), since the following dummy example is not adequate: A very good idea, but not neccessarily the

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-14 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Marco Br?der wrote: But it is not very useful in its current state, because several popular licenses are missing and some license foo is not right / specific enough to be considered legally correct (for example there is no 'one BSD License', there are at least three of

Re: License Framework: Develop Best Practices

2010-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Marco Br?der wrote: But it is not very useful in its current state, because several popular licenses are missing and some license foo is not right / specific enough to be considered legally correct (for example there is no