Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 00:29:49 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> Cc: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LICENSE questions Message-ID: <CAF6rxgndWSMTDRHtG3FNb1m1ZrvZeYUfQwo8kXcS=QpC6i5RbA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <126e66dd-8cee-2475-f44d-193934d1f587@FreeBSD.org> References: <b2a4e74d-cbe3-d70e-553c-dcfbdc9442f1@missouri.edu> <CAF6rxgmQuK31iiNoE57sJcTVaqDdSmB6Pf%2BBYwmbWWBtrtYGYg@mail.gmail.com> <d456df7f-259e-8c1b-5178-8e9a5e948718@missouri.edu> <CAF6rxg=uSmn05Kc6sHycwF=FYO%2BhrRVLJi5NNPd4hVq=oott_w@mail.gmail.com> <11cf69da-01ed-e7c3-9c2b-2291e22ab6e9@missouri.edu> <126e66dd-8cee-2475-f44d-193934d1f587@FreeBSD.org>
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On 4 October 2016 at 00:25, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote: > Le 04/10/2016 =C3=A0 03:58, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen a =C3=A9crit : >> On 10/03/2016 07:34 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> On 3 October 2016 at 05:31, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen >>> <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote: >>>> On 10/02/2016 05:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>> On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen >>>>> <stephen@missouri.edu> 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 LICENS= E 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 individua= l >>>>>> file has its own license. >>>>> A "custom" license that merely states to check the distfiles should b= e >>>>> 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. >> Could we use USES=3Dmetaport to suppress these messages? > > Suppress what messages ? 115 .if defined(LICENSE) 119 .else 120 DEV_WARNING+=3D "Please set LICENSE for this port" 121 .endif --=20 Eitan Adler
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