Chunyang, Regarding MacPorts contributions please consider using the BSD; or if the BSD license is not possible use another less restrictive license like LGPL.
-- Brad On Jun 19, 2015, at 4:10 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > >> On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:32 AM, Chunyang Xu wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Jun 14, 2015, at 11:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Revision >>>>> 137557 >>>>> Author >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> Date >>>>> 2015-06-14 09:35:29 -0700 (Sun, 14 Jun 2015) >>>>> Log Message >>>>> >>>>> users/chunyang: port.el: New folder >>>>> Added Paths >>>>> >>>>> • users/chunyang/port.el/ >>>>> • users/chunyang/port.el/port.el >>>>> Diff >>>>> >>>>> Added: users/chunyang/port.el/port.el (0 => 137557) >>>>> >>>>> --- users/chunyang/port.el/port.el (rev 0) >>>>> +++ users/chunyang/port.el/port.el 2015-06-14 16:35:29 UTC (rev 137557) >>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ >>>>> +;;; port.el --- a Emacs interface for MacPorts port(1) -*- >>>>> lexical-binding: t; -*- >>>>> + >>>>> +;; Copyright (C) 2015 Chunyang Xu >>>>> + >>>>> +;; Author: Chunyang Xu <[email protected]> >>>>> +;; Keywords: MacPorts >>>>> + >>>>> +;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >>>>> +;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >>>>> +;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or >>>>> +;; (at your option) any later version. >>>>> + >>>>> +;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, >>>>> +;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of >>>>> +;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the >>>>> +;; GNU General Public License for more details. >>>>> + >>>>> +;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License >>>>> +;; along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. >>>> >>>> Really? GPL? >>> >>> Yes. It's a Emacs package under my user folder and GPL is the most >>> common choice for Emacs packages. >> >> >> Ryan, does MacPorts have a recommended/preferred license? > > I wasn't sure if this port.el was something that was meant to be a part of > MacPorts itself, or would remain separate, for example to be installed by a > separate port. > > For code that will be contributed to the MacPorts project, GPL-3 and later > are not an ideal license choice because Apple employees are prohibited, by > company policy, from examining it. Several Apple employees do participate in > MacPorts, and it is unfortunate when one of them is prevented from > contributing to an aspect of MacPorts because of its choice of license. > > The rest of the MacPorts base code is under the BSD license. It is nice when > all of a project is under a single license. > Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
