ports/89203: Bugs and clean-up of /usr/ports/LEGAL
Oliver Fromme
olli at secnetix.de
Thu Nov 17 17:20:24 UTC 2005
>Number: 89203
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Bugs and clean-up of /usr/ports/LEGAL
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 17 17:20:22 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Oliver Fromme
>Release: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, http://www.secnetix.de/bsd
>Environment:
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (ports collection RELEASE_6_0_0)
>Description:
In the /usr/ports/LEGAL file, the entry for "vtk" is missing
a proper description (third column is empty):
VTK-* math/vtk
According to their website at http://www.vtk.org the software
is basically under a BSD-style license. The library contains
a few classes which use patented algorithms, but that does
not affect redistribution of the software. Therefore I would
like to suggest that the above entry be removed from the file
/usr/ports/LEGAL.
Furthermore, the following entries don't exist anymore in the
ports collection. I guess they're old ports that have been
removed, but it has been forgotten to remove their entries in
the LEGAL file. I suggest to remove them, too:
/audio/linux-realplayer
/benchmarks/himeno
/devel/linux_understand_ada
/devel/linux_understand_c
/devel/linux_understand_java
/emulators/vmware_xf4mod
/games/bnetd
/japanese/acroread7
/java/j2sdkee
/java/kaffe-devel
/java/orion
/misc/nwrite
/net/DarwinStreaming
/net/djbdns
/security/md5crk
/www/Mosaic
/z11-themes/gnome-icons-cool-gorilla
Finally, there are two lines in the LEGAL file consisting
only of the word "[RESTRICTED]" (with square brackets).
They don't seem to belong to anything. They should be
removed, too.
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
>Fix:
Remove the obsolete lines from the /usr/ports/LEGAL file.
See above.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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