Re: pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

2021-05-14 Thread Chris
hings straight with these ports. Thanks again! :-) --Chris An .include includes the given file at that point (duh), and in this case that's kde-icons-noia/Makefile.icons, which overwrites your LICENSE variables (and brings in LICENSE_TEXT). And, as stated before: that cannot be your intention

Re: pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

2021-05-14 Thread Christoph Moench-Tegeder
m. As I wrote in my first reply: : Foremost, that Makefile has an .include, and that's where the mess : (for this use case) happens. An .include includes the given file at that point (duh), and in this case that's kde-icons-noia/Makefile.icons, which overwrites your LICENSE variables (and bri

Re: pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

2021-05-14 Thread Chris
On 2021-05-14 14:19, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: ## Chris (portmas...@bsdforge.com): > but the way it currently interacts > with your port is not that fine: in the very least, it overwrites > your LICENSE variables, which cannot be your intention. (Try > "make -V LICE

Re: pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

2021-05-14 Thread Christoph Moench-Tegeder
## Chris (portmas...@bsdforge.com): > > but the way it currently interacts > > with your port is not that fine: in the very least, it overwrites > > your LICENSE variables, which cannot be your intention. (Try > > "make -V LICENSE" in kde-icons-nuovoext2). >

Re: pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

2021-05-13 Thread Chris
t have some comments about that?), but the way it currently interacts with your port is not that fine: in the very least, it overwrites your LICENSE variables, which cannot be your intention. (Try "make -V LICENSE" in kde-icons-nuovoext2). Sorry. My bad. LGPL3 is now included in the

Re: pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

2021-05-13 Thread Christoph Moench-Tegeder
y it currently interacts with your port is not that fine: in the very least, it overwrites your LICENSE variables, which cannot be your intention. (Try "make -V LICENSE" in kde-icons-nuovoext2). Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space ___ freeb

pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

2021-05-13 Thread Chris
I'm getting the following report from pkg-fallout@: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed for x11-themes/kde-icons-nuovext2 HOWEVER the error returned by pkg-fallout@ makes absolutely no sense at all, given the Makefile for the r

Which license to specify for a binary port?

2021-03-02 Thread Dan Mahoney (Gushi)
while in https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201799, and I note some of my progress there. My broader question for the group is: Racadm's license, accoring to the RPM is "Dell Proprietary" but I cannot find the actual text of this license on their site. How should a porter

License question - New port databases/libmswstr

2021-01-10 Thread Rainer Hurling
I intend to update my databases/mdbtools port and add a new databases/libmswstr [1] port as a dependency. This new port should allow mdbtools to use indexes of databases in JET4 format. [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27955 The author of libmswstr [2] did not include a license [3] with his

math/hs-Agda: Need help with defining LICENSE

2019-06-03 Thread Gleb Popov
Hello. I'm having troubles setting LICENSE properly for math/hs-Agda port. Its LICENSE file looks like this: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Agda-2.6.0.1/src/LICENSE I've figured out that I surely need LICENSE_COMB= multi, but I'm unsure of the rest. I'd be grateful, if

[patch] [maintainer timeout, 51 days] Bug 230917 - [patch] x11-wm/libcompizconfig: correct LICENSE; add a missing dependency and option NLS

2018-10-16 Thread Samy Mahmoudi
Dear commiters, Could you please commit the patch of Bug 230917 ? Best regards, Samy Mahmoudi ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

[patch] [maintainer timeout, 51 days] Bug 230916 - [patch] x11-wm/ccsm: add LICENSE and option NLS

2018-10-16 Thread Samy Mahmoudi
Dear commiters, Could you please commit the patch of Bug 230916 ? Best regards, Samy Mahmoudi ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

[patch] [maintainer timeout, 51 days] Bug 230915 - [patch] x11-wm/compiz-fusion: add LICENSE and missing dependencies

2018-10-16 Thread Samy Mahmoudi
Dear commiters, Could you please commit the patch of Bug 230915 ? Best regards, Samy Mahmoudi ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

[patch] [maintainer timeout, 51 days] Bug 230908 - [patch] x11-wm/compiz-plugins-extra: add missing dependencies, LICENSE and option NLS

2018-10-16 Thread Samy Mahmoudi
Dear commiters, Could you please commit the patch of Bug 230908 ? Best regards, Samy Mahmoudi ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-06 Thread Marko Cupać
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 05:46:00 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 05.07.2018 18:01, Marko Cupać wrote: > > > What would be the benefit of users' clicks for owners of such > > software? What would owners of such software lose if they didn't > > require clicks? > > > > What would be the benefit for pkg

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-05 Thread Eugene Grosbein
05.07.2018 18:01, Marko Cupać wrote: > What would be the benefit of users' clicks for owners of such software? > What would owners of such software lose if they didn't require clicks? > > What would be the benefit for pkg owners for investing time and effort > into supporting such feature? How wo

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-05 Thread Marko Cupać
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:52:31 -0700 Yuri wrote: > One software package has the custom license text that users need to > click-to-accept in order to install it. > > Does 'pkg' support such license? Can it show the user the license > text and ask the user to click &quo

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-03 Thread Eugene Grosbein
03.07.2018 14:06, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >>> But it doesn't ask to "agree" during 'pkg install dcc-dccd'. >> >> Yes. Meantime, you have several choices: >> >> 1) Mark the port NO_PACKAGE and/or no-pkg-mirror to force users use a port >> that > > It is not no-pkg-mirror, in this case, it is no-aut

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-03 Thread Mathieu Arnold
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 06:33:43AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 03.07.2018 6:17, Yuri wrote: > > >> It does. See mail/dcc-dccd for example. > > But it doesn't ask to "agree" during 'pkg install dcc-dccd'. > > Yes. Meantime, you have several choices: > > 1) Mark the port NO_PACKAGE and/or no-p

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-02 Thread Eugene Grosbein
03.07.2018 6:17, Yuri wrote: >> It does. See mail/dcc-dccd for example. > But it doesn't ask to "agree" during 'pkg install dcc-dccd'. Yes. Meantime, you have several choices: 1) Mark the port NO_PACKAGE and/or no-pkg-mirror to force users use a port that 1a) builds software from source, or 1b)

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-02 Thread Yuri
On 07/02/18 16:11, Eugene Grosbein wrote: It does. See mail/dcc-dccd for example. But it doesn't ask to "agree" during 'pkg install dcc-dccd'. Yuri ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-port

Re: What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-02 Thread Eugene Grosbein
03.07.2018 5:52, Yuri wrote: > One software package has the custom license text that users need to > click-to-accept in order to install it. > > Does 'pkg' support such license? Can it show the user the license text and > ask the user to click "Agree" befo

What the port license should be when software is "free for non-commercial use" with "click-to-accept" or clickwrap license?

2018-07-02 Thread Yuri
One software package has the custom license text that users need to click-to-accept in order to install it. Does 'pkg' support such license? Can it show the user the license text and ask the user to click "Agree" before installing the package? If not, I think this is a

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-27 Thread Sid
I think we should consider gradually using the Clear BSD license whenever someone decides to make an alternate, where a GPL licensed code was inserted on top of less restrictive licenses. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-26 Thread Sid
> 'to the effect of  "If I looked at the code already, the license is already > contaminated"' I think that means, everyone usually has made their edits, before you get a chance to see it. It still is most likely multi-licensed (included) under

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-26 Thread Sid
> 'someone else said something to the effect of  "If I looked at the code > already, the license is already contaminated"' That makes no sense to me. That advice seems counterproductive. In the source code, I'm sure you saw this, but there are different license

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-24 Thread Sid
If the author doesn't respond, it's best to move on. Either use their GPL, or completely rewrite it, to avoid infringing on their work. It should be in it's own separate files, so it doesn't get absorbed into that other work's more restrictive license, before it is its

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-11 Thread blubee blubeeme
rk on the software sine mid > >>>> 2000. > >>>> > >>>> I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like to migrate > >>>> from GPL to BSD license. > >>>> > >>>> How does one go about doing

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
: >>>> I like some old software that's <= GPL2 but it seems like the original >>>> developer is not and have not done any work on the software sine mid >>>> 2000. >>>> >>>> I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-10 Thread Chris H
is not and have not done any work on the software sine mid > 2000. > > > > I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like to migrate from > GPL > > to BSD license. > > > > How does one go about doing that? I have seen the GPL code but it could &

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
original developer is not and have not done any work on the >>> software sine mid 2000. >>> >>> I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like to migrate >>> from GPL to BSD license. >>> >>> How does one go about doing that

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-10 Thread blubee blubeeme
gt; > > > I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like to migrate from > GPL > > to BSD license. > > > > How does one go about doing that? I have seen the GPL code but it could > be > > re-written how would that affect me re-writing the code

Re: License and adopting software

2017-12-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
e to migrate from GPL > to BSD license. > > How does one go about doing that? I have seen the GPL code but it could be > re-written how would that affect me re-writing the code with a new copy > center license? You basically have to get the original author to reassign copyright to you; a

License and adopting software

2017-12-10 Thread blubee blubeeme
I like some old software that's <= GPL2 but it seems like the original developer is not and have not done any work on the software sine mid 2000. I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like to migrate from GPL to BSD license. How does one go about doing that? I have

Re: SPDX and LICENSE in the ports framework

2017-11-08 Thread Antoine Brodin
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > Who is working on the LICENSE part of the ports framework ? > > I've found this website: > > https://spdx.org/ > > which describes SPDX as a > > standard format for communicating the components

SPDX and LICENSE in the ports framework

2017-11-08 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! Who is working on the LICENSE part of the ports framework ? I've found this website: https://spdx.org/ which describes SPDX as a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with software packages Do we need some mapping between our licens

Adding license information for non-predefined license.

2017-09-20 Thread Yasuhiro KIMURA
Hello all. Let's assume there is a port of software with following situation. * It is covered under single license that is not defined in bsd.license.db.mk. * There is no license document file in source archive. * But there is license sentences in each of source code files. In this

FreeBSD Port: freeze-2.5_2 - license dialog

2017-07-11 Thread David Gessel
Would it be possible to move the license dialog to a standard option so batch portmaster (etc) will get the license confirmation with the rest of the options updates rather than during the (often unattended) build phase? -David ___ freebsd-ports

Which license should be used for as-id

2017-06-25 Thread Matthias Fechner
Dear all, which LICENSE tag in ports should be used if the package as the license "AS IS"? Thanks Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better

Using the license framework to define a port with distribution restrictions

2016-12-18 Thread Carsten Larsen
Hi, I have a question in relation to the FreeBSD license framework and how to define a port with distribution restrictions. The port in question is devel/vasm port. The legal section of documentation (1.2) for this port is at: http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/release/vasm.html It is not clear

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-11-21 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hey Franco, On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Franco Fichtner wrote: > >> On 28 Oct 2016, at 6:30 PM, Joshua Ruehlig wrote: >> >> I don't believe the maintainer dropped the project. > > I was talking about www/subsonic, sorry for the confusion: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Joshua Ruehlig
Ahh ok, sounds good. Sounds like we should just follow suit with whatever www/subsonic does. Which seems to be thus far to remove the LICENSE line. On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Franco Fichtner wrote: > > > On 28 Oct 2016, at 6:30 PM, Joshua Ruehlig > wrote: > > >

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Vlad K.
maintainer) and carries the whole context. In short, the author of Subsonic has to specify what is the license of his product and include appropriate license in both the distributable/downloadable tarball and relevant source repositories. As it is at the moment, it all points to it still being

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Franco Fichtner
> On 28 Oct 2016, at 6:30 PM, Joshua Ruehlig wrote: > > I don't believe the maintainer dropped the project. I was talking about www/subsonic, sorry for the confusion: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213298 > If a user wants to use a previous version they are free to modify t

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Joshua Ruehlig
;distinfo', and build the port. Also the 'www/subsonic' port is still on version 5.3 so people can use that as well. I could not find a license for version 6.0. I checked the README.TXT that came with the v6.0 jar and it does not seem to be up to date. It says subsonic is "

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Franco Fichtner
gone for 5.3 is now on GitHub: https://github.com/sindremehus/subsonic I don't know whether 6.0 is quintessential, but from a pure license perspective it seems odd that everyone now has to use a proprietary license with no options given even though we still have the original 5.3 *and* a fork

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Joshua Ruehlig
Ohh, I realize earlier I'm not the maintainer and was only CC'ed on the first email. Regardless I'll go search to see if I can find the license for subsonic 6.0. Franco, what do you mean a maintainer drop? Also Madsonic, which is supposedly GPL based on their website is available

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Franco Fichtner
> On 28 Oct 2016, at 4:41 PM, Joshua Ruehlig wrote: > > sure I'll take a look. I assume all I need to do is find and set the > current license? I would like to take this opportunity to ask why we have a maintainer drop whilst doing the upgrade of a free 5.3 to a proprietary

Re: www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Joshua Ruehlig
sure I'll take a look. I assume all I need to do is find and set the current license? On Oct 28, 2016 6:41 AM, "Michael Zhilin" wrote: > Hi, > > Issue: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213299 (created > 20 days ago). > > License of www/su

www/subsonic-standalone license

2016-10-28 Thread Michael Zhilin
Hi, Issue: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213299 (created 20 days ago). License of www/subsonic-standalone is GPL [1], but actually this version of software (v.6) is available only as free binaries. Also it includes trial version of functionalities which can be purchased by

Re: poudriere / logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs confirmation, but BATCH is defined

2016-10-09 Thread Michael Grimm
Don Lewis wrote: > On 8 Oct, Michael Grimm wrote: >> Don Lewis wrote: >>> >>> On 8 Oct, Michael Grimm wrote: >>>>| >> Ignoring audio/logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs >>>> confirmation, but BATCH is defined >&

Re: poudriere / logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs confirmation, but BATCH is defined

2016-10-08 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
ediaserver. > >>> > >>> But I am failing to get this port compiled by poudriere (3.2-pre): > >>> > >>> | ? > >>> | ---End make.conf— > >>> | >> Ignoring audio/logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs >

Re: poudriere / logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs confirmation, but BATCH is defined

2016-10-08 Thread Don Lewis
poudriere (3.2-pre): >>> >>> | ? >>> | ---End make.conf— >>> | >> Ignoring audio/logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs >>> confirmation, but BATCH is defined >>> | ? >>> >>> I did try

Re: poudriere / logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs confirmation, but BATCH is defined

2016-10-08 Thread Michael Grimm
End make.conf— >> | >> Ignoring audio/logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs >> confirmation, but BATCH is defined >> | ? >> >> I did try to run ? >> >> poudriere testport -j stable -c -i audio/logitechmediaserver >>

Re: poudriere / logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs confirmation, but BATCH is defined

2016-10-08 Thread Don Lewis
| >> Ignoring audio/logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs > confirmation, but BATCH is defined > | ? > > I did try to run ? > > poudriere testport -j stable -c -i audio/logitechmediaserver > poudriere testport -j stable -c -I audio/logitechmediaserver >

poudriere / logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs confirmation, but BATCH is defined

2016-10-08 Thread Michael Grimm
Hi — as audio/squeezeboxserver has gone, I need to migrate to audio/logitechmediaserver. But I am failing to get this port compiled by poudriere (3.2-pre): | … | ---End make.conf— | >> Ignoring audio/logitechmediaserver: License SDL needs confirmation, but

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-04 Thread Bob Eager
nold > >>> wrote: > >>>> Le 04/10/2016 à 03:58, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen a écrit : > >>>>> Could we use USES=metaport to suppress these messages? > >>>> Suppress what messages ? > >>> 115 .if defined(LICENSE) > >

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-04 Thread Mathieu Arnold
crit : >>>>> Could we use USES=metaport to suppress these messages? >>>> Suppress what messages ? >>> 115 .if defined(LICENSE) >>> 119 .else >>> 120 DEV_WARNING+= "Please set LICENSE for this port" >>> 121 .endif >> Mm

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-04 Thread Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
es? >>> Suppress what messages ? >> 115 .if defined(LICENSE) >> 119 .else >> 120 DEV_WARNING+= "Please set LICENSE for this port" >> 121 .endif > > Mmmm, this is a warning, not an error, it tells you "dude, maybe you > need to do this".

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-04 Thread Mathieu Arnold
t;>>> wrote: >>>>> On 10/02/2016 05:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>>> On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which hav

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-04 Thread Eitan Adler
, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>> On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have >>>>>> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-04 Thread Mathieu Arnold
ontgomery-Smith, Stephen >>>> wrote: >>>>> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have >>>>> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in >>>>> those ports? >>>> The other answ

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-03 Thread Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
ts, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have >>>> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in >>>> those ports? >>> >>> The other answers are correct. If the license is standard (listed >>> here: https://spdx.org

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-03 Thread Mathieu Arnold
;> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in >>> those ports? >> The other answers are correct. If the license is standard (listed >> here: https://spdx.org/licenses/) we should add it to the main >> database. >> >>> An even tougher on

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-03 Thread Eitan Adler
;> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in >>> those ports? >> >> The other answers are correct. If the license is standard (listed >> here: https://spdx.org/licenses/) we should add it to the main >> database. >> >>> An e

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-03 Thread Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
On 10/02/2016 05:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen > wrote: >> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have >> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in >>

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-02 Thread Eitan Adler
On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote: > So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have > licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in > those ports? The other answers are correct. If the license is standar

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-02 Thread Bob Eager
On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 18:44:43 + "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" wrote: > So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which > have licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set > LICENSE in those ports? Like this example: LICENSE=C

Re: LICENSE questions

2016-10-02 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen < step...@missouri.edu> wrote: > So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have > licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in > those ports? > > An even

LICENSE questions

2016-10-02 Thread Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in those ports? An even tougher one is math/octave-forge-optim, where each individual file has its own li

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-15 Thread Torsten Zuehlsdorff
quot;If no license statement can be found in the sources or the website, then no permission is given, and it's technically illegal for anyone but the author(s) to use the software." This for example is true for Germany, which signed the Berne Convention. But the German law for example makes

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > This interpretation is based on the hypothesis that the user is located > in a country that has this kind of legal rule. > > This is not the case in every country, so your conclusion is not always > valid. What percentage of countries are signatories t

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > On 2016-09-14 11:49, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > >> [...] > >> the license. If no license statement can be found in the sources or the > >> website, then no permission is given, and it's technically illegal for > >> anyone but the author(s) to use the

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Vitaly Magerya
On 2016-09-14 11:49, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> My interpretation of this phrase is not that LICENSE variable is >> mandatory (to which I would object on the basis that ports licensing >> framework is vague, incomplete, and apparently used by noone too), but >> rather that for

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > On 2016-09-14 10:19, Bob Eager wrote: > > This port never did have LICENSE, and it had been updated recently with > > no issues. However, I was told that "I don't see any mention of any > > kind of license in the package or on the site, so it should be > &

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Vitaly Magerya
On 2016-09-14 10:19, Bob Eager wrote: > This port never did have LICENSE, and it had been updated recently with > no issues. However, I was told that "I don't see any mention of any > kind of license in the package or on the site, so it should be > LICENSE= NONE. Note that w

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > I recently had a minor patch (to one of the ports I maintain) bounced > because I hadn't specified a LICENSE. > > This port never did have LICENSE, and it had been updated recently with > no issues. However, I was told that "I don't see any mention of any &g

LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Bob Eager
I recently had a minor patch (to one of the ports I maintain) bounced because I hadn't specified a LICENSE. This port never did have LICENSE, and it had been updated recently with no issues. However, I was told that "I don't see any mention of any kind of license in the package or

Re: Makefile LICENSE options

2016-09-10 Thread Randy Westlund
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:03:24AM +0100, Bob Eager wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 03:39:51 -0400 > Randy Westlund wrote: > > > Is there a list of possible values for LICENSE in port makefiles? I > > can't find anything in the Porter's Handbook. > > > &g

Re: Makefile LICENSE options

2016-09-09 Thread Bob Eager
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 03:39:51 -0400 Randy Westlund wrote: > Is there a list of possible values for LICENSE in port makefiles? I > can't find anything in the Porter's Handbook. > > I'm expecting to find a table that shows how each license should be > written,

Makefile LICENSE options

2016-09-09 Thread Randy Westlund
Is there a list of possible values for LICENSE in port makefiles? I can't find anything in the Porter's Handbook. I'm expecting to find a table that shows how each license should be written, e.g. use 'BSD3CLAUSE' and not '3CALUSEBSD'. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: License info Q

2015-11-24 Thread A.J. "Fonz" van Werven
Eitan Adler wrote: >> Now, I don't mind drafting a section for the Handbook based on what I can >> find in /usr/ports/Mk *IF* someone who is familiar with the details of the >> license framework is willing to a) check my work before I submit it to the >> docs@ team

Re: License info Q

2015-11-24 Thread Eitan Adler
On 24 November 2015 at 17:15, A.J. "Fonz" van Werven wrote: > Now, I don't mind drafting a section for the Handbook based on what I can > find in /usr/ports/Mk *IF* someone who is familiar with the details of the > license framework is willing to a) check my work before I

Re: License info Q

2015-11-24 Thread A.J. "Fonz" van Werven
Roger Marquis wrote: > Perhaps easier than spending developer resources on administrative metadata > perhaps an automated monthly email to port maintainers who have missing or > inaccurate LICENSE= data, requesting this variable be added to makefiles and > manifests, would improve

Re: License info Q

2015-11-24 Thread Roger Marquis
Perhaps easier than spending developer resources on administrative metadata perhaps an automated monthly email to port maintainers who have missing or inaccurate LICENSE= data, requesting this variable be added to makefiles and manifests, would improve things? Whatever the means of generating

Re: License info Q

2015-11-19 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015, at 04:48, Fabian Keil wrote: > Roger Marquis wrote: > > > I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages. > > > > Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have license > > info in their Makefile. Is the

Re: License info Q

2015-11-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Kubilay Kocak wrote: > On 18/11/2015 9:48 PM, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Roger Marquis wrote: > > > >> I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages. > >> > >> Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have licens

Re: License info Q

2015-11-18 Thread Kubilay Kocak
On 18/11/2015 9:48 PM, Fabian Keil wrote: > Roger Marquis wrote: > >> I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages. >> >> Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have license >> info in their Makefile. Is there a reliable way t

Re: License info Q

2015-11-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Roger Marquis wrote: > I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages. > > Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have license > info in their Makefile. Is there a reliable way to enumerate port or > package license strings, preferably wit

License info Q

2015-11-12 Thread Roger Marquis
I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages. Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have license info in their Makefile. Is there a reliable way to enumerate port or package license strings, preferably without fetching a package tarfile? Roger

Re: help categorise license

2015-07-27 Thread Chris H
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:24:59 +1000 Kubilay Kocak wrote > On 27/07/2015 11:18 PM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > > On 2015-07-27 13:52, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > >>> (Also note that our license framework should probably be scrapped > >>> entirely, because it is ambiguous a

Re: help categorise license

2015-07-27 Thread Kubilay Kocak
On 27/07/2015 11:18 PM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > On 2015-07-27 13:52, Kubilay Kocak wrote: >>> (Also note that our license framework should probably be scrapped >>> entirely, because it is ambiguous and undocumented). >> >> Or it could just be made less ambiguous an

Re: help categorise license

2015-07-27 Thread Vitaly Magerya
On 2015-07-27 13:52, Kubilay Kocak wrote: >> (Also note that our license framework should probably be scrapped >> entirely, because it is ambiguous and undocumented). > > Or it could just be made less ambiguous and documented. > > Otherwise, we should scrap entirely all ot

Re: help categorise license

2015-07-27 Thread Kubilay Kocak
On 27/07/2015 7:36 PM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > On 2015-07-27 11:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> I'm making a port of http://netlib.org/math. >> Their license looks like BSD2CLAUSE, but can >> somebody please check: >> http://netlib.org/math/license.htm > >

Re: help categorise license

2015-07-27 Thread Vitaly Magerya
On 2015-07-27 11:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm making a port of http://netlib.org/math. > Their license looks like BSD2CLAUSE, but can > somebody please check: > http://netlib.org/math/license.htm That link should end with ".html", not ".htm". In any

help categorise license

2015-07-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm making a port of http://netlib.org/math. Their license looks like BSD2CLAUSE, but can somebody please check: http://netlib.org/math/license.htm Thanks Anton ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Question: License

2015-06-08 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: > Portlint suggested I set LICENSE for sysutils/lsof. What is the > appropriate value for the following: > > License > === > > Lsof has no license. Its use and distribution are subject to these > terms and c

Re: Question: License

2015-06-08 Thread A.J. "Fonz" van Werven
Larry Rosenman wrote: > Portlint suggested I set LICENSE for sysutils/lsof. What is the > appropriate value for the following: > > License > === > > Lsof has no license. Its use and distribution are subject to these > terms and conditions, found in each lsof sour

Re: Question: License

2015-06-08 Thread Muhammad Moinur Rahman
>From bsd.licenses.mk : # Case 2: license only known by the port (aka "unknown"). # # In this case LICENSE_{PERMS,NAME} are mandatory, in addition to # either LICENSE_FILE or LICENSE_TEXT. Optional variable is # LICENSE_GROUPS. # # Available components for LICENSE_PERMS:

Question: License

2015-06-08 Thread Larry Rosenman
Portlint suggested I set LICENSE for sysutils/lsof. What is the appropriate value for the following: License === Lsof has no license. Its use and distribution are subject to these terms and conditions, found in each lsof source file. (The copyright year in or format of the notice may

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