On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:13:25AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > Hi! > > I want to port a game which requires data released under Limited > Freeware License > > (http://liberatedgames.org/licenses/Limited_Freeware_License.txt) > > --- > The owner of this software reserves all rights granted by copyright. > However, the owner grants the following rights to users: > > 1) The right to make personal copies of the software. > 2) The right to distribute the software for free (at no cost) to other > users. > > No further rights are granted or should be assumed. This includes, but > is not limited to, the right to create derivative works. > --- > > The question is: does FreeBSD port fall under `derivative work'? > I.e. may the data files be installed by it (or should I ask users > to download files themselves instead) and may the package of such > a port be created? Port does not modify any datafiles, it just needs > to download zip and install them to ${DATADIR}.
The port itself (i.e. the Makefile, the patches, the pkg-descr) is your property, you own the copyright. A person who installs the port on his computer (who runs "make install") doesn't make derivative work, he just makes personal copies. A person who creates packages for further distrubution could creates a derivative, and therefor is not allowed. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-restrictions.html how to disable that package building part (NO_PACKAGE=foo) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
