From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 10:08:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DACD1065670 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:08:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EED38FC15 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.92]) by qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0A7V1g0011zF43QA5A8Kfl; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:08:19 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0A8H1g00D1f6R9u8kA8JQ3; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:08:19 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:08:17 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:08:17 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20110126100817.GA34311@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20110126001729.GA70944@comcast.net> <20110126034636.GB19985@magic.hamla.org> <20110126101350.ae448a5f.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110126101350.ae448a5f.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4.2.3i X-Composer: Vim 7.3 Cc: Subject: Re: Should I be adding LICENSE info to my ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:08:20 -0000 On Wed 26 Jan 2011 at 01:13:50 PST Emanuel Haupt wrote: >Sahil Tandon wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:17:29 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: >> >> > Today on FreshPorts I see some bulk commits adding LICENSE info to >> > 40+ ports. And I've noticed LICENSE being added in many other recent >> > commits. >> >> Right, ehaupt@ updated several of his ports to include LICENSE. > >I was very reluctant to do so but now that the license framework has >been around for some time I thought I give it a go. > >As Sahil pointed out it's entirely up to you. Better have no license >specified if you're not sure about it. You can not always trust the >included COPYING file. There are many cases where a port comes with >several different licenses. I found that cross checking with different >linux distros could often bring some clarification. Good tips, thanks. There's also often some licensing info in the author's manpage, website, or other documentation. I'm not going to submit a flurry of PR's to add this to all my ports, but I will begin gathering the info so I can include it as part of any other updates.