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)

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