Bug 221261

Summary:

Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk: Add license for Facebook's PATENTS grant v2

Product:

Ports & Packages

Reporter:

VK <vlad-fbsd>

Component:

Ports Framework

Assignee:

freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>

Status:

Open ---

Severity:

Affects Some People

CC:

portmgr, ports-bugs

Priority:

---

Keywords:

feature, patch

Version:

Latest

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

221262

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Add Facebook's PATENTS v2 license	none

Description VK freebsd_triage

2017-08-05 23:43:19 UTC

Created attachment 185067 [details]
Add Facebook's PATENTS v2 license

I believe we'd need to have Facebook's PATENTS grant as a license in ports. There's been some fuss about it with Apache Foundation banning all software licensed with it, like React.js. More info on teh subject:

* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303

and

* http://perens.com/blog/2017/07/19/what-the-apache-facebook-reactos-issue-means-to-companies/

We have archivers/zstd that only lists BSD2CLAUSE, but imho that's incomplete, or at least not really BSD since there are additional restrictions (I'll be filing a separate bug that adds this). ZSTD in the base contains the PATENTS grant, though:

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/zstd/PATENTS?view=log

Attached is a patch that adds the license for ports.

Comment 1 VK freebsd_triage

2017-08-06 00:58:45 UTC

I found a few more ports with the same additional Facebook PATENTS v2 restriction:

* devel/fb-adb: BSD3CLAUSE + PATENT
* devel/ds2: NCSA + PATENT
* sysutils/osquery: BSD3CLAUSE + PATENT