From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Oct 3 12:34:56 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A705AF3918 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22b.google.com (mail-wm0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1230A9C8 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id k125so145863046wma.1 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:34:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=7O3qKWDhl63OLHJGrh/Abooq47XsYDe9QjZ5/odr0vQ=; b=I+tPqe2euStr67TXtMZU4jdCld9Ov/V8NuYgz8AVfDBH53WfIoONYD1VluKduYpKIQ rUyJDzuPvpigLLLkOz7pbJ0f7OQ4ECNczQj8EqWD1Sc69HlnihQwp4HzZRQGJt90MTif susewhPBd3JDPeGjCcO2kTtKaGPYeeE/h62Vo= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=7O3qKWDhl63OLHJGrh/Abooq47XsYDe9QjZ5/odr0vQ=; b=ezTpgSjbXOhl08eIlo0ZoZQYuShm4kg6TcWNiMfOM/ICXUkSI9DYzCfQSHNgT/WVd3 wf2ru0UHsC0Om/4aBQ/7sUPuRvtYu4QXRaRg1tE8YceZ+kD9IDvvA4vScBG3DsSsVRJ+ yrZpLmQaEDynt1DjfhljBRh4+Q0nFOXZ49DbagWV4VhudcVNn8dq9LQvr2mQeYWDtgw+ 9z9SH6ySFfZ0b2hmR/24V/YB7mErxxqWRI6qKpSGhCmvH5WxV6+mJn5+2SEnrMj1Adik 1Gczxl4T3tD+nSeXOwR/o9w3ekGalYYIx1hEvkm4VNVdW0w38/2g4fcLod79xCtk32Tn 4Hzg== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RlfIc/cnNEdo7ajjJYfGzccVKCeWQ9152wXNrZt3k/WlFNdXpovOKGjLXNLycOgfWlKMvs+JAOr4vU90Q== X-Received: by 10.28.142.197 with SMTP id q188mr9854293wmd.119.1475498094087; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:34:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.28.18.4 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2016 05:34:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 05:34:23 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: LICENSE questions To: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" Cc: FreeBSD Ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:34:56 -0000 On 3 October 2016 at 05:31, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote: > On 10/02/2016 05:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen >> wrote: >>> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have >>> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. How do I set LICENSE in >>> those ports? >> >> The other answers are correct. If the license is standard (listed >> here: https://spdx.org/licenses/) we should add it to the main >> database. >> >>> An even tougher one is math/octave-forge-optim, where each individual >>> file has its own license. >> >> A "custom" license that merely states to check the distfiles should be >> sufficient. > > How about a meta port, whose dependencies all have different licenses? > Something similar? meta-ports shouldn't define a license at all. I'm not sure we have a way to shut the warnings up though. -- Eitan Adler