svn commit: r306047 - in head/net-mgmt/arpscan: . files

[Thomas Abthorpe]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:47:18PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:57:49AM -0400, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> > Please keep in mind, BSD, ZLIB and a few other licenses include something
> > like
> > 
> > Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
> > 
> > in which the copyright holder exerts year and name, see
> > http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause as an example
> > 
> > Currently the licensing framework does not include a means of
> > incorporating name/date with a template file for viewing, so it is just
> > better to display the provided license file.
> 
> I see.  Indeed, our licensing framework leaves lots of room for improvement.
> Do we have any plans for fixing these shortcomings?  IMHO it could have made
> a nice GSoC project.
> 
> ./danfe

There is always room for improvement!

In private discussions with one of our ports contributors, there has
been some interest in contributing code to augment this shortcoming.

As for a GSoC, might be worth throwing my hat into the arena as a mentor
to try make it happen.


Thomas

-- 
Thomas Abthorpe		| FreeBSD Committer
tabthorpe at FreeBSD.org	| http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe
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