Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 01:58:18 +0000 From: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu> To: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LICENSE questions Message-ID: <11cf69da-01ed-e7c3-9c2b-2291e22ab6e9@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxg=uSmn05Kc6sHycwF=FYO%2BhrRVLJi5NNPd4hVq=oott_w@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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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 ha= ve >>>> 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? >=20 > 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?=
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