cvs commit: ports LEGAL

Michael Johnson ahze at ahze.net
Wed Nov 10 13:47:54 PST 2004


On Nov 10, 2004, at 4:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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.

I'll be sure to always send an email in the future than, sorry about 
that.

>
> Kris
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