In regards to the following, this submission fixes the licensing issues to be a bit safer.
On 11-Feb-2009 Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009/02/11 15:29, Will Maier wrote: >> I also find the license confusing. For convenience, here's the meat: >> >> 1. License Grant >> >> Cadence Research Systems (hereinafter, Cadence) grants you >> (hereinafter, Licensee) a nonexclusive license to use Petite Chez >> Scheme and associated documentation (hereinafter, Licensed Product), to >> combine the Licensed Product with other products to form Aggregate >> Products, and to redistribute the Licensed Product or Aggregate >> Products without royalty. All Aggregate Products must include the >> Licensed Product in its entirety. No payment may be received by >> Licensee for redistribution of the Licensed Product, although nothing >> in this Agreement shall prevent Licensee from receiving payment for >> other portions of Aggregate Products. Any redistribution of the >> Licensed Product or Aggregate Products is subject to all restrictions >> set forth in this Agreement. Licensee may not reverse compile, >> disassemble, or otherwise reverse engineer the Licensed Product. >> >> The port currently sets PERMIT_* = Yes. Does that fit with the >> above? > > IMO this should have PERMIT_*_CDROM=no, "combine" is not well > defined in the license and is I think ambiguous. "in its entirety" > is hard since we don't actually put distfiles on the CDs. > > I'm not even sure about PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP since it doesn't permit > modification (the "Licensed Product" includes the "associated > documentation", and the port patches this). > > The author may be intending something other than what is written, > but that is irrelevant, what is relevant is how someone else sometime > down the line might interpret it. (And that is why the standard > /usr/share/misc/license.template used in OpenBSD is so good; there > is very little room for legal wriggling and misinterpretation). I have spoken with the author regarding these issues, and he indicated that he is interested in this and wants to deal with it, but that he is swamped and will not be able to deal with it until early Summer, so I've adjust the licensing to be on the safe side for now. I think there should be nothing else wrong with it. -- Aaron W. Hsu <arcf...@sacrideo.us> | <http://www.sacrideo.us> "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat +++++++++++++++ ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) ++++++++++++++
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