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Date:      Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:11:10 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jan Beich <jbeich@tormail.net>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>, Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net-p2p/amule Makefile ports/net-p2p/amule/files patch-configure
Message-ID:  <CADLo839Et1vieOdBWJBrutyZkExRgQy8__%2BwufrA4fZxb-4suA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111227090920.GA66519@FreeBSD.org>
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2011/12/27 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 08:58:35AM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
>> 2011/12/27 Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org>:
>> > Alexey Dokuchaev ha scritto:
>> >> Right, so perhaps this line should be dropped completely, not just
>> >> commented out. =A0On a related note, thanks for removing LICENSE_FILE
>> >> knobs for known standard licenses, we need to cure this abuse for
>> >> quite a while.
>> >
>> > Well, actually the license framework documentation says exactly the
>> > opposite, it recommends to set LICENSE_FILE also for known licenses.
>
> Which is very stupid. =A0One of the reasons to use license framework is t=
o
> avoid spamming the filesystem with umpteen identical copies of GPL et al.
> Unless the port installs some proprietary license file, setting LICENSE_F=
ILE
> should not use needed or used.
>
>> Oh dear.... reading bsd.licenses.mk shows that there's no 'pool' of
>> known licenses, which means that doing stuff like LICENSE=3DGPLv2
>> without LICENSE_FILE violates the GPL.
>>
>> I'll look at making a 'pool', now where to store it...
>
> Yes, ideally, we have to store all common licenses texts in out place, an=
d
> create symlinks over there for each individual port (i.e. under
> $localbase/share/licenses/<portname>).

I smell a bikeshed starting...

but to avoid failures every time a new licence is added, it'll need to
be under ports/ somewhere...

Chris



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