FreeBSD port: x11-servers/mga_hal should not be labelled RESTRICTED

[pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com]

Hi;

--- Eric Anholt <eta at lclark.edu> wrote:

> > 
> > ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2004/readme_mgadriver_4_1.txt
> > 
> > "Due to certain legal liabilities and for the protection of 
> > intellectual property, Matrox reserves licensing rights to the 
> > library and prohibits reverse engineering but allows free 
> > distribution under any operating system. Matrox encourages members 
> > of the open source community to freely distribute and assist in 
> > the further development of this driver."
> > 
> > There's also an mgadriver-4.1-1-src.tar.gz that someone should hack, but
> for
> > the time being it would be really nice to remove RESTRICTED for this port.
> 
> However, the click-through license to get the files, which reads like an
> actual license, says something quite different.  I'm going to stick with
> the more restrictive one unless someone can get some clarification from
> Matrox.  (Yes, I've already tried.)
>

They stick that license to all the downloads from the website. I think the file
distributed with the code takes precedence.

It's just IMHO though, so I'll let the matter rest.

    Pedro. 


		
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