On 2012-1-3 14:13 , Arno Hautala wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 19:24, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>> If there is no license (and the work is not in the public
>> domain), we can't distribute the software at all. His direction to "Use
>> and distribute and modify as you (or anyone else) sees fit" is a
> I'm a bit confused here. You seem to be saying that without a license
> an archive can't be distributed, but also that it's a Permissive
> license, which is identified as distributable. Or am I
> misinterpreting?
The author intends for it to be open, but if following the law to the letter, a
li
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 19:24, Joshua Root wrote:
>
> The author doesn't appear to understand how copyright works and/or what
> a license is.
He also states that symlinks has been around many years before the
open source "fad", but the earliest release that I've been able to
find (1.0) is from 199
On 2012-1-3 04:38 , Arno Hautala wrote:
> I'm putting together a Portfile for "symlinks" by Mark Lord. The
> source doesn't come with a license and the author has stated that it
> doesn't have one [1]. Is there such an identifier for the license
> field in a Portfile?
The author doesn't appear to
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:55, Jeremy Lavergne
wrote:
>
> I'd just put in Permissive.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:57, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
> I would recommend "Permissive" which indicates that the source code may
> be modified and we can distribute binary archives of the port.
Excellent, thanks.
On 2012-01-02 18:38 , Arno Hautala wrote:
> I'm putting together a Portfile for "symlinks" by Mark Lord. The
> source doesn't come with a license and the author has stated that it
> doesn't have one [1]. Is there such an identifier for the license
> field in a Portfile?
I would recommend "Permissi
> I'm putting together a Portfile for "symlinks" by Mark Lord. The
> source doesn't come with a license and the author has stated that it
> doesn't have one [1]. Is there such an identifier for the license
> field in a Portfile?
>
> For that matter, is there documentation on valid identifiers?
>
I'm putting together a Portfile for "symlinks" by Mark Lord. The
source doesn't come with a license and the author has stated that it
doesn't have one [1]. Is there such an identifier for the license
field in a Portfile?
For that matter, is there documentation on valid identifiers?
[1]: http://bu
