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Date:      Tue, 4 Oct 2016 13:47:35 +0200
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: LICENSE questions
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From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>,
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Message-ID: <fd3fcd46-6950-9fb9-0272-09d35f7fb158@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: LICENSE questions
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Le 04/10/2016 =C3=A0 09:29, Eitan Adler a =C3=A9crit :
> 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, whi=
ch have
>>>>>>> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk.  How do I set LIC=
ENSE 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 indivi=
dual
>>>>>>> file has its own license.
>>>>>> A "custom" license that merely states to check the distfiles shoul=
d be
>>>>>> sufficient.
>>>>> How about a meta port, whose dependencies all have different licens=
es?
>>>>> 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

Mmmm, this is a warning, not an error, it tells you "dude, maybe you
need to do this".
I don't see a good reason to complicate the logic more.

--=20
Mathieu Arnold



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