Adding licensing info to my ports: some questions

[Chris Rees]

On 17 Jan 2012 18:43, "Chad Perrin" <code at apotheon.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Well... the author and maintainer of the code isn't around any more.

Chris