Re: licensing issues

[Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx%ua.ac.be@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:21:19AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> 
> > > I *HIGHLY* recommend not putting context patches into pkgsrc-wip.  If you
> > > must do this, use simple ed-script patches only (e.g., "diff -e") to make
> > > sure context is not included.
> >
> > Are things ok as they are in wip/jdk14 at the moment?  Or should all
> > existing patches/ be converted to diff -e format?
> 
> I'd recommend converting them, committing, and then doing "cvs admin -o" for
> all the previous revisions of the patch files.  Doing so would put the jdk14
> package into at least questionable, rather than bad, legal status.  8-)

Do the "diff -e" style patches work with pkgsrc out-of-the-box?  I doubt it
since for example they don't contain the filename to be patched.  

I don't want to spend a lot of time to get this working if I'm not even
sure it's necessary.  wip/jdk14 has always had diff -u style patches in the
past, and the FreeBSD port also has some.  And I assume the FreeBSD port is
ok with the licenses.  

But correct me if I'm wrong.  

GH


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