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

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Aug 7 17:22:52 GMT 2005


In message: <42F63113.5020600 at freebsd.org>
            Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> writes:
: 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?

I keep seeing snapshots and build.  I still don't know if this
distributes sources or binaries.  My concern was if it distributed
binaries.

The tree itself has no license, but is presuemed to be BSD-license.
The actual binaries built from the tree, however, have a zillion
different licenses...

Warner



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