From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Oct 4 12:15:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C783AF4980 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:15:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (mx3.absolight.net [IPv6:2a01:678:2:100::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "plouf.absolight.net", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27F708D7 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:15:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8395BDD38; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 14:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ogg.in.absolight.net (ogg.in.absolight.net [79.143.241.239]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9451ABDD25; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 14:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: LICENSE questions To: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" , Eitan Adler References: <11cf69da-01ed-e7c3-9c2b-2291e22ab6e9@missouri.edu> <126e66dd-8cee-2475-f44d-193934d1f587@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" From: Mathieu Arnold Organization: Absolight / The FreeBSD Foundation Message-ID: <614130db-1846-3c97-e94b-7962adc604d0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 14:15:28 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1vqG4teoKVnswa3NAMxeOeDgEBIQr2arD" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:15:32 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --1vqG4teoKVnswa3NAMxeOeDgEBIQr2arD Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="l158fBNimGfGg1JbuIGXiw4Lpop6Ll5FF"; protected-headers="v1" From: Mathieu Arnold To: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" , Eitan Adler Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" Message-ID: <614130db-1846-3c97-e94b-7962adc604d0@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: LICENSE questions References: <11cf69da-01ed-e7c3-9c2b-2291e22ab6e9@missouri.edu> <126e66dd-8cee-2475-f44d-193934d1f587@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: --l158fBNimGfGg1JbuIGXiw4Lpop6Ll5FF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le 04/10/2016 =C3=A0 14:03, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen a =C3=A9crit : > On 10/04/2016 06:47 AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >> Le 04/10/2016 =C3=A0 09:29, Eitan Adler a =C3=A9crit : >>> On 4 October 2016 at 00:25, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >>>> Le 04/10/2016 =C3=A0 03:58, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen a =C3=A9crit := >>>>> 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. >> > Because naive port maintainers like myself might think they should add = a > LICENSE to any metaport they happen to own. > > One of the issues I have with LICENSE is that I don't see anything abou= t > it in the porters handbook. Otherwise that would be an excellent place= > to tell maintainers of metaports not to license them. Nobody stepped up to write a LICENSE section. I started writing https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56 but it is crappy. > Also the tone is quite commanding. If it said "Consider setting LICENS= E > for this port", that would be more acceptable. Really, I think it > should say "Please set LICENSE for this port, unless this is a metaport= ". Feel free to make the message better, it is in Mk/bsd.sanity.mk. --=20 Mathieu Arnold --l158fBNimGfGg1JbuIGXiw4Lpop6Ll5FF-- --1vqG4teoKVnswa3NAMxeOeDgEBIQr2arD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJX851hXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQzQUI2OTc4OUQyRUQxMjEwNjQ0MEJBNUIz QTQ1MTZGMzUxODNDRTQ4AAoJEDpFFvNRg85IkZsP/3wfWzSvj9gJygta+Ix8pWZF GGBHLHYtHxowKw+hCVTu2Dwdc99Z/HitB5WybOpMGsBUS2pSD4BRDjwBvZ7yz3HM qnhs259kVlu5QZywKAYnB8jcjFp5w5/Vq34qfM/Zw0tm9ZWzh/DSopmD6VUOINYg hdHWQSwEqbuYCsF44yW32Jobr3Nd6uDRAlk8rkQsEvDmT9cw9CeTyd+MNzR9Wf7e dMs+TNK9lKcNhoNoUYdXi5gtO5c1kyUtopVt+XmVSRpohQuOBMY4Oeo2I/PuSJyb A3/0QjlLyhw/UnrVd8w6UNOaaYbLJN6P/xGgpJM/lX13bQH6YcPZsdz3yxozK/it /lVE4DPlvJD7ynKiDLB1zc0l7ZErY6LsVzfijG28SmgSxhcWTMAh/9fs3OBWUxDb jg0uaUoNC+78aHSi+hG6XUB+VpUjleKr2Odf5K+Em4OJKteevcuRWdjiLZOwMSeJ hTYGZyqmc60s8ql7ZD+j/ReLE+RgbuEvQYDS2tWwuaPfmCVRzO7SfKwarmQOyPgM vRgfAm9fq35NzuwNtgHxWZ4EVs69rl0VV4gptMncMrchg5C0q+CnK7UubLzJAlro W7jct1Xm6HVwa1vIrsKiA2NQazGlDZPCLd/MHjamUys8xzUlCdfPNnd1BLaUtEbY TraeusIlSJoFkSFwP9RQ =cGWQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1vqG4teoKVnswa3NAMxeOeDgEBIQr2arD--