cvs commit: ports LEGAL

[Michael Johnson]

Hi Kris,

On Nov 10, 2004, at 1:46 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:05:29AM +0000, Michael Johnson wrote:
>> ahze        2004-11-10 09:05:29 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     .                    LEGAL
>>   Log:
>>   add audio/faac - Restrictive copyright
>>
>>   Approved by:    pav (co mentor)
>
> A couple of points:
>
> 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?

Michael

>
> Kris
>
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