documentation and licensing ...

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Nov 14 12:41:05 PST 2013


On 2013-11-14 20:53, Peter Danecek wrote:
>     xinstall -m 644 -W  ${portpath}/files \
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                          ${filespath}

It's just a shorter alias of the same path.

> It works, but it might not be the intended use. Is this approach okay? 

Yes.

> The peace of software is licensed under CC BY-3.0 and some parts under MPL-1.1. To my understanding both allow redistribution, but CC licences are not in the current list in 
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/jobs/port_binary_distributable.tcl
> 
> Should CC licences be added or do I use `Permissive` in the present case?

CC licenses are very uncommon for software and their use for this
purpose is discouraged. I don't expect more of this kind.

Rainer


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