On Jan 15, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
I want to port a game which requires data released under Limited
Freeware License
(http://liberatedgames.org/licenses/Limited_Freeware_License.txt)
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The owner of this software reserves all rights granted by copyright.
However, the owner grants the following rights to users:
1) The right to make personal copies of the software.
2) The right to distribute the software for free (at no cost) to other
users.
No further rights are granted or should be assumed. This includes, but
is not limited to, the right to create derivative works.
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OK, this is a fairly classic restrictive freeware license.
The question is: does FreeBSD port fall under `derivative work'?
So long as you do not need to make any patches to the software, no.
I.e. may the data files be installed by it (or should I ask users
to download files themselves instead) and may the package of such
a port be created? Port does not modify any datafiles, it just needs
to download zip and install them to ${DATADIR}.
The following section of the Porter's Handbook describes the variables
you should set to comply with this license:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-restrictions.html
You should definitely set NO_CDROM and probably NO_PACKAGE, as
creating a package would be making a derivative work. However, you
might consider asking the authors of this software for additional
permission....
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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