custom license on new port?

Michael Scheidell scheidell at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 18 10:57:29 UTC 2012


got a new port. submitted by the copyright owner and author.
for reference, pr ports/168832

there is no LICENSE= in the Makefile, no LICENSE.txt in the 
distribution, but it does have the attached in the main.c file.

Q: should I ask him to select one of the standard FreeBSD/GPL licenses 
(and edit his source )?

Q: or do I do a 'post-patch' and head -27 bsdinfo.c > 
$[FILESDIR}/LICENSE.txt and add LICENSE= ${FILESDIR}/LICENSE.txt ?
(LICENSE TYPE EULA?)

what is the policy on custom licenses? it wants this in binary form 
(pkgs, cd, etc), so something has to be done.

/*
* Copyright (c) 2011 Jakub Szafrański <samu at pirc.pl>
*
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
* DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
* OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
* HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
* LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
*/

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