On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Dan Ports <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing that thwarts the simplest analysis you might think of doing > is that the COPYING file, if one exists, will not usually give you all > the information you need.
It would be best in that case to notify the upstream that they need to fix their license notices. From your description it could easily be the case that a project copyright holder applies a license completely different from the one they intended. That would be A Bad Thing in the event of a legal dispute. May I suggest someone write a script that attempts to automatically determine the licenses of all the ports in the repository, then compares the results to the license info that has been obtained by hand? Such a script would be useful to Open Source project hosting sites like SourceForge and GitHub. -- Michael David Crawford mdcrawford at gmail dot com Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
