Re: Can I update wip/py-pcapy?

On Wed, 18 May 2011 04:31:35 +0900, Alexander Nasonov <[email protected]> wrote:

> The patch below updates py-pcapy to 0.10.5, removes a kludge for
> NetBSD 1.6.1-stable, adds destdir support and a license.

For kludge for old NetBSD, we can use followings in these days.

BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.libpcap+=	libpcap>=0.7.2

> I'm a bit unsure about the license. It's apache 1.1 with substitutions
> in company a product names and without the trailer in
> licenses/apache-1.1:
>
>  * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
>  * individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation.  For more
>  * information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see
>  * <http://www.apache.org/>.
>  *
>  * Portions of this software are based upon public domain software
>  * originally written at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
>  * University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
>
> Pcapy page states that "This software is provided under a slightly
> modified version of the Apache Software License. Feel free to review it
> here and compare it to the official Apache Software License."
>
> I take the _slightly modified_ words from the authoritative source
> as a "license" to set LICENSE=apache-1.1 in the package Makefile.

I feel it is reasonable to cut trailer parts because it is not match
for out of ASF (and its softwares).

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OBATA Akio / [email protected]