Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On 25 March 2013 10:49, Alex Dupre wrote: > Eitan Adler ha scritto: >> This is insufficient to include, say, line 212: >> >> "raknet-*devel/raknetOriginal license is >> Indy license, special authorization granted to provide RakNet under >> GPL v3" > > Ehmm, I could argu

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Dupre
Eitan Adler ha scritto: > This is insufficient to include, say, line 212: > > "raknet-*devel/raknetOriginal license is > Indy license, special authorization granted to provide RakNet under > GPL v3" Ehmm, I could argue about the private email permission, but if it's li

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On 25 March 2013 10:37, Alex Dupre wrote: > Eitan Adler ha scritto: >> The LEGAL file is for a broader set of things than just RESTRICTED. >> It covers "no commercial use" which is NO_CDROM but not RESTRICTED > > Yup, LEGAL is both NO_CDROM and RESTRICTED, and RESTRICTED_FILES already > contains t

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Dupre
Eitan Adler ha scritto: > The LEGAL file is for a broader set of things than just RESTRICTED. > It covers "no commercial use" which is NO_CDROM but not RESTRICTED Yup, LEGAL is both NO_CDROM and RESTRICTED, and RESTRICTED_FILES already contains the list of !distributable files. I'd say this is eno

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On 25 March 2013 10:08, Alex Dupre wrote: > Eitan Adler ha scritto: >> RESTRICTED does not cover "special permission granted to distribute" >> and other not-a-restriction things. > > And why do we need them? RESTRICTED is for !distributable, exactly as > the LEGAL file. We can improve RESTRICTED t

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Dupre
Eitan Adler ha scritto: > RESTRICTED does not cover "special permission granted to distribute" > and other not-a-restriction things. And why do we need them? RESTRICTED is for !distributable, exactly as the LEGAL file. We can improve RESTRICTED to automatically generate LEGAL. For particular licen

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On 25 March 2013 09:36, Alex Dupre wrote: > Eitan Adler ha scritto: >> I have been trying to capture the differences between LEGAL and the ports >> tree. >> At this point I am convinced we need a new variable to capture in a >> machine usable way issues such as "special permission granted to >> d

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Dupre
Eitan Adler ha scritto: > I have been trying to capture the differences between LEGAL and the ports > tree. > At this point I am convinced we need a new variable to capture in a > machine usable way issues such as "special permission granted to > distribute under the GPL" or "No license -- see > h

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Eitan Adler wrote: > I have been trying to capture the differences between LEGAL and the ports > tree. > At this point I am convinced we need a new variable to capture in a > machine usable way issues such as "special permission granted to > distribute under the GPL" or "No license -- see > http

Re: LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-24 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been trying to capture the differences between LEGAL and the ports > tree. > At this point I am convinced we need a new variable to capture in a > machine usable way issues such as "special permission granted to > distribute

LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

2013-03-24 Thread Eitan Adler
Hi all, I have been trying to capture the differences between LEGAL and the ports tree. At this point I am convinced we need a new variable to capture in a machine usable way issues such as "special permission granted to distribute under the GPL" or "No license -- see http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.h