Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:13:11PM -0500, Graham Todd wrote: > > I doubt this simpler approach would be "ITIL compliant" ;) but since > that is not a goal and the bulk of anything to do with licenses involves > lawyers anyway, the ports/pkg system should probably try to do as little > as possible

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-18 Thread Graham Todd
On 01/18/2012 04:34, Johan van Selst wrote: > Nikola Lečić wrote: >> Anyway, it wasn't clear from the bsd.licenses.mk that we should >> use 'multi' in situations of 'any later version'. This means that >> all licensing info of eg. GPL2+ ports must be updated when GPL4 >> appears... > > No, we shou

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-18 Thread Johan van Selst
Nikola Lečić wrote: > Anyway, it wasn't clear from the bsd.licenses.mk that we should use > 'multi' in situations of 'any later version'. This means that all > licensing info of eg. GPL2+ ports must be updated when GPL4 appears... No, we should not use this. Not just because of the potential of ha

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-18 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 01/17/2012 14:35, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > Anything can go wrong, but it is (IMO) quite easy to state the intention > of > > the FreeBSD Project in this case. > > You're making the very common mistake of assuming that the law has

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/17/2012 14:35, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Anything can go wrong, but it is (IMO) quite easy to state the intention of > the FreeBSD Project in this case. You're making the very common mistake of assuming that the law has anything to do with reality. It doesn't. The fact that we're making cla

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >> >>> On 01/17/2012 03:56, Vitaly Magerya wrote: >>> Eitan Adler wrote: > 1) Will licensing section ever appear i

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-17 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: 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

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Jan 2012 18:43, "Chad Perrin" wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > 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 ac

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > 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 > > ta

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-17 Thread Doug Barton
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 genera

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-17 Thread Vitaly Magerya
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 w

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 05:40:35AM +0300, Nikola Lečić wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:14:57PM -0500 Eitan Adler [email address > elided] wrote: > > 2012/1/16 Nikola Lečić : > > > > > > 6) I need three new items added to the licenses database because they > > >   should be considered as 'known'

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-16 Thread Eitan Adler
2012/1/16 Nikola Lečić : > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:14:57PM -0500 >  in >  Eitan Adler wrote: > >> 2012/1/16 Nikola Lečić : > [...] >> > 3) Intentionally no difference between 2- and 3-clause BSD? >> >> I hope not. We should probably have a BSD2, BSD3, and BSD4 license. >> For now mark it with

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-16 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:14:57PM -0500 in Eitan Adler wrote: > 2012/1/16 Nikola Lečić : [...] > > 3) Intentionally no difference between 2- and 3-clause BSD? > > I hope not. We should probably have a BSD2, BSD3, and BSD4 license. > For now mark it with a comment (or offer a patch to the d

Re: Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-16 Thread Eitan Adler
2012/1/16 Nikola Lečić : > Hello, > > I'm about to add licensing info to all my 25 ports. I hoped that a > chapter dedicated to licensing issues would appear in the Porters > Handbook, but since this hasn't happened so far, I decided to try > without it. > > Here are my questions; sorry if some of

Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

2012-01-16 Thread Nikola Lečić
Hello, I'm about to add licensing info to all my 25 ports. I hoped that a chapter dedicated to licensing issues would appear in the Porters Handbook, but since this hasn't happened so far, I decided to try without it. Here are my questions; sorry if some of them are already answered in the past.