License Update

Joseph a Nagy Jr jnagyjr1978 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 18:14:19 UTC 2012


Included is an update to more accurately reflect the license (which is
the Tcl/Tk license[0], more on that in a minute) and removal of myself
as maintainer if that's desired.

Now, as to the license. If you look in license terms in the file section
in the working directory and compare it to the Tcl/TK license linked to
from Tcl's official website, you'll see they are a match. If you search
for it on the FSF or OSI websites, you'll find it is not endorsed or
certified by either group, though it is endorsed/certified by the
CopyFree group[1][2]. That is the reasoning behind changing it from
"BSD" to Tcl/TK and grouping it as CopyFree only. While it may be
compatible with such OSI and FSF licenses, without such certification or
endorsement it makes no sense to group it with the GPL and similar
copyleft licenses without those endorsements.

[0]: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/license.html
[1]: http://copyfree.org/licenses/
[2]: http://copyfree.org/licenses/tcltk/license.txt
-- 
Yours in Christ,

Joseph A Nagy Jr
"Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction
is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
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--- tk85/Makefile	(revision 308534)
+++ tk85/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -12,11 +12,14 @@
 PKGNAMESUFFIX?=	${THREADS_SUFFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}${PORTVERSION}-src
 
-MAINTAINER=	jnagyjr1978 at gmail.com
+MAINTAINER=	freebsd-tcltk at freebsd.org
 COMMENT?=	Graphical toolkit for Tcl
 
-LICENSE=	BSD
-LICENSE_TERMS=	${WRKSRC}/../license.terms
+LICENSE=        Tcl/Tk
+LICENSE_GROUPS= COPYFREE
+LICENSE_NAME=   Tcl/Tk License
+LICENSE_TEXT=   ${WRKSRC}/../license.terms
+LICENSE_PERMS=  auto-accept dist-mirror dist-sell pkg-mirror pkg-sell
 
 LATEST_LINK?=	tk85
 USE_XORG=	x11
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