From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: package licensing issue
To: Ian Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:02:22 +0000

personally I don't think we should have private agreements like that, if 
it's not open for anyone to package I'd prefer to not allow distributing 
packages. I have no problem having that in ports with PERMIT_* disabled though.

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  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 14 January 2026 17:34:48 Ian Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com> wrote:

> moderne-cli is as the name implies a CLI front-end to Moderne, a
> cross-repo refactoring tool. It has "recipes" for Java, JavaScript, C#,
> AWS, Docker/K8S, Node, Android, and dozens more - even a few for
> COBOL(!). While most of the "recipes" are open source, parts of the
> engine, and the server component, are not. Nor, alas, is the CLI tool
> itself, but they do distribute a compiled JAR file, which this port
> downloads from Maven central.
>
> So is this sort of license marker likely to be acceptable?
>
> # "Packaging the unmodified CLI JAR in the OpenBSD ports tree is okay"
> #     -- Bryan Friedman <bryan at moderne dot io> 2026-01-14
> # Free for open source projects, else need a license from Moderne.io.
> PERMIT_PACKAGE =    Yes
>
> Thx
>
> Ian