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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:25:07 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        Wen Heping <wen@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/moinmoin Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20110120092507.GA82095@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <70181583@serv3.int.kfs.ru>
References:  <201101180845.p0I8jubc025995@repoman.freebsd.org> <70181583@serv3.int.kfs.ru>

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:32:16PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Wen Heping <wen@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > wen         2011-01-18 08:45:56 UTC
> >
> >   - Add license
> -----
> > +LICENSE=	GPLv2
> > +LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/docs/licenses/COPYING
> -----
> 
> This is a general question, just picking this commit up.
> Should we provide the license text if it's a standard one?
> My vote is "no"...

I would also said no.  In fact, I find it abusive and wrong to use the
LICENSE_FILE at all for standard licenses.  Then problem is that people
don't care, and we (ports people) do not do enough to educate them, and
even sometimes encourage mistakes by committing bad submissions.

./danfe



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