cvs commit: ports LEGAL

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 10 13:41:12 PST 2004


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:39:31PM -0500, Michael Johnson wrote:

> >The first field is supposed to be a glob that matches all restricted
> >distfiles.
> >
> >You're supposed to mail portmgr when you add things here, because we
> >may need to remove distfiles from ftp-master to conform (see the big
> >scary notice at the top of the file).
> 
> I'm not big on license issues but from what I  understand, faac's 
> source can
> be freely distributed (its on sourceforge) but just can't sell a binary 
> with out a license from
> dolby. I thought since this source doesn't matter it wouldn't matter if 
> we have it on our mirrors.
> Am I wrong?

Thanks for clarifying; looks like Point 2 is OK, but Point 1 is still
true.

Kris


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