From nobody Wed Feb 12 08:15:08 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4YtB2671hgz5nbPW for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com) Received: from echo.brtsvcs.net (echo.brtsvcs.net [208.111.40.118]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4YtB26553Vz3LLg for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from chombo.houseloki.net (65-100-43-2.dia.static.qwest.net [65.100.43.2]) by echo.brtsvcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BE7438D07; Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.26.25.100] (ivy.pas.ds.pilgrimaccounting.com [10.26.25.100]) by chombo.houseloki.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BE12728D15; Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:15:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <0d63d30c-3be9-5672-fa6d-70cd4a3d3c3a@bluerosetech.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:15:08 -0800 List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Subject: Re: How do I specify and attribute multiple licenses? Content-Language: en-US To: Ronald Klop Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <1988510304.13796.1739346835328@localhost> From: list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com In-Reply-To: <1988510304.13796.1739346835328@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4YtB26553Vz3LLg X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36236, ipnet:208.111.40.0/24, country:US] On 2025-02-11 23:53, Ronald Klop wrote: > The main purpose (IMHO) of the license in the ports tree is to specify > if the distfile or package can be distributed. > So as long as the licenses are similar in permissions I would keep it > simple and use the pkg-message to list additional details. > Keep it simple. You can always make things complicated in the future if > there is a real necessity. That's a good point. The license file for each bit of vendor code gets included in the bundle. The user can always read them if they wish.