/usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sun Aug 7 16:09:09 GMT 2005


M. Warner Losh wrote:
> However, one possible gotcha in setting this up is licensing.  Do you
> know that your distribution of binary snapshot complies with the GPL
> which requires that you also provide the sources when you do this?
> The project already has some issues with GPLd ports when it builds
> binaries.  Are distfiles part of portsnap?  If so, then you are safe
> for the standard licenses...

Huh?  Isn't the ports tree BSD-licensed?

Colin Percival


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