Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

[Chad Perrin]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 03:56, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
> > Eitan Adler wrote:
> >>> 1) Will licensing section ever appear in the Porters Handbook? :-)
> >>
> >> Yes
> > 
> > Is someone actually working on it? If so, and is there some sort of
> > target timeline?
> > 
> > Back in 2010 when the framework was introduced, my general impression
> > was that maintainers where advised to wait with the adoption until that
> > chapter is written...
> 
> Personally I think we should scrap the whole thing. It is an interesting
> idea, but the implementation has never fleshed out. It's also completely
> unclear what any of it means from an actual legal standpoint, and
> personally I'm not convinced that we aren't making things worse for the
> project by doing this.

How?  I don't see the problem that makes things worse, I guess.

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