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From: Doug Barton on 14 Jun 2010 04:07 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 it could be BSD, but I'm not sure. I also have several others in this category. 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. :) Then there is security/libassuan which seems to be dual licensed under GPLv3 and LGPLv2, did we ever decide how to handle that? textproc/htdig is so old that it is using LGPL 2, but there is only an LGPL21 in bsd.licenses.db.mk 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(a)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? Thanks, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Ashish SHUKLA on 14 Jun 2010 11:05 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 LICENSE_FILE_GPLv3= ${WRKSRC}/COPYING LICENSE_FILE_LGPL3= ${WRKSRC}/COPYING.LESSER #v- and this resulted in following files: ,----[ LICENSE | This package has dual licenses (any of): | - GPLv3 (GNU General Public License version 3) | - LGPL3 (GNU Lesser General Public License version 3) `---- and COPYING and COPYING.LESSER containing GPLv3 and LGPL3 license texts. HTH Ashish SHUKLA -- Sent via Gnus from GNU Emacs They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Chuck Swiger on 14 Jun 2010 12:59 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(a)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(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Doug Barton on 14 Jun 2010 19:05 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 > LICENSE_FILE_GPLv3= ${WRKSRC}/COPYING > LICENSE_FILE_LGPL3= ${WRKSRC}/COPYING.LESSER Great, thanks! Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Doug Barton on 14 Jun 2010 19:10
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, that's the ISC license, > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/isc-license.txt. Right-O, so can we/I add that to ports/Mk/bsd.license*? >> 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. Yeah, I guess I didn't ask my question properly. :) Can I use just "BSD" for the license in these cases, or is there a need for us to differentiate between this BSD license and the now-standard 2-clause version? >> 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.) My vote would be that we add a "PERL" category, but maybe there is a reason not to do this? >> 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(a)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. Oy, ok, so how do I classify it? Or am I correct in assuming we do not yet have a category for it? In any case, thanks for all the answers, very helpful! Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org" |