svn commit: r471837 - head/science/szip
Dmitry Marakasov
amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Fri Jul 20 17:34:57 UTC 2018
* Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru) wrote:
I feel like by comment has been ignored.
Let me repeat, we have legal issue here, as szip license explicitly
prohibits certain software uses. I don't feel this can be considered
auto-acceptable, and the problems with dependent ports are not an
excuse. Some of them have szip support optional, and it probably should
be disabled by default.
> > Author: antoine
> > Date: Wed Jun 6 12:13:19 2018
> > New Revision: 471837
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/471837
> >
> > Log:
> > Auto-accept SZIP license, otherwise hundreds of ports are skipped
>
> Please consider reverting this, you can't just mark it auto-accept
> for convenience.
>
> The license is pretty clean in its restrictiveness, and ignoring it
> has possible legal implications for FreeBSD projects and its users.
>
> Many szip consumers have szip support optional, and it may be set to
> disabled by default to fix package build skips.
>
> --- COPYING begins here ---
>
> SZIP Copyright and License Notice
>
> The SZIP Science Data Lossless Compression Program is Copyright (C) 2001
> Science & Technology Corporation @ UNM. All rights released.
>
> Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Lowell H. Miles and Jack A. Venbrux.
> Licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution by the University of Illinois'
> National Center for Supercomputing Applications as a part of the
> HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library
> products package. All rights reserved. Do not modify or use for other
> purposes.
>
> SZIP implements an extended Rice adaptive lossless compression algorithm
> for sample data. The primary algorithm was developed by R. F. Rice at
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
>
> SZIP embodies certain inventions patented by the National Aeronautics &
> Space Administration. United States Patent Nos. 5,448,642, 5,687,255,
> and 5,822,457 have been licensed to ICs, LLC, for distribution with the
> HDF data storage and retrieval file format and software library products.
> All rights reserved.
>
> Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law),
> royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP decompression software
> routines and underlying patents is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to all users
> of and in conjunction with HDF data storage and retrieval file format and
> software library products.
>
> Revocable (in the event of breach by the user or if required by law),
> royalty-free, nonexclusive sublicense to use SZIP compression software
> routines and underlying patents for non-commercial, scientific use only
> is hereby granted by ICs, LLC, to users of and in conjunction with HDF
> data storage and retrieval file format and software library products.
>
> For commercial use license to SZIP compression software routines and
> underlying patents, please contact ICs, LLC, at
> Address: ICs, LLC, 2040 Warren Wagon Road, P.O. Box 2236
> McCall, ID 83638
> Phone: (208) 315-2877. Fax: (208) 634-7720.
> Email: support at ics4chips.com
>
> --- COPYING ends here ---
>
> > Modified:
> > head/science/szip/Makefile
> >
> > Modified: head/science/szip/Makefile
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/science/szip/Makefile Wed Jun 6 11:49:55 2018 (r471836)
> > +++ head/science/szip/Makefile Wed Jun 6 12:13:19 2018 (r471837)
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ COMMENT= Lossless compression library for scientific d
> > LICENSE= SZIP
> > LICENSE_NAME= SZIP License
> > LICENSE_FILE= ${WRKSRC}/COPYING
> > -LICENSE_PERMS= dist-mirror no-dist-sell pkg-mirror no-pkg-sell no-auto-accept
> > +LICENSE_PERMS= dist-mirror no-dist-sell pkg-mirror no-pkg-sell auto-accept
> >
> > CONFLICTS_INSTALL= libaec
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Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D
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