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.
1) Will licensing section ever appear in the Porters Handbook? :-)
2) Should I mark the ports that explicitly state "X11" with "MIT"?
3) Intentionally no difference between 2- and 3-clause BSD?
4) How should I state eg. "LGPL21 or any later version" or "GPL2
only i.e. no later version"?
5) What if licensing info differs for entire source file and actually
installed files? In textproc/kmfl-sil-ezra source file, the font is
licensed OFL and the keyboard layout X11; the port installs only
keyboard layout. Should I state just "MIT" in the Makefile?
6) I need three new items added to the licenses database because they
should be considered as 'known' licenses and thus belonging to the
'Case 1' in bsd.licenses.mk. There are: Common Public License, SIL
Open Font License and Public Domain [non-license]. I'd gladly
submit a PR, but I'd appreciate if someone could check this first,
especially _LICENSE_GROUPS_* including COPYFREE status.
6a) CPL:
_LICENSE_NAME_CPL= Common Public License
_LICENSE_GROUPS_CPL= FSF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Public_License
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CommonPublicLicense10
As for this license, the software in question (textproc/teckit)
is licensed "GLPLv2.1+ or CPLv0.5+". However, the CPL version
approved on gnu.org, used in NetBSD... is 1.0. Should we make
any difference between CPL versions because of this? Or just to
use LICENSE_TEXT?
(Btw, the Wikipedia article on CPL states that this license is
OSI-approved, but I can't find it here:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category.)
6b) OFL:
_LICENSE_NAME_OFL= SIL Open Font License
_LICENSE_GROUPS_OFL= FSF OSI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#SILOFL
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/OFL-1.1
6c) PD[?]:
_LICENSE_NAME_PD= Public Domain
_LICENSE_GROUPS_PD= FSF GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#PublicDomain
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/licenses/public-domain?only_with_tag=MAIN
Many thanks in advance,
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Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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