LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Mon Mar 25 15:17:30 UTC 2013


On 25 March 2013 10:49, Alex Dupre <ale at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Eitan Adler ha scritto:
>> This is insufficient to include, say, line 212:
>>
>> "raknet-*                devel/raknet            Original license is
>> Indy license, special authorization granted to provide RakNet under
>> GPL v3"
>
> Ehmm, I could argue about the private email permission

The email has been made public (see the files directory).

> but if it's
> listed in LEGAL it should be marked as RESTRICTED or NO_CDROM, otherwise
> it should not listed there

or NO_PACKAGE.  However, merely being listed as NO_PACKAGE is
insufficient as some NO_PACKAGE entries are not for legal issues.

>  (the LICENSE framework already says that
> special authorization has been granted).

It should also be listed in LEGAL in this case (there was a long
discussion about this in the past).

-- 
Eitan Adler


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