On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Chunyang,
>
> Regarding MacPorts contributions please consider using the BSD; or if the BSD 
> license is not possible use another less restrictive license like LGPL.
>

OK, I will fix it as soon as possible.

>
> --
> 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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