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> References: <201112251903.pBPJ39SJ037714@repoman.freebsd.org> <1Reu5F-000KFr-GV@internal.tormail.net> <CADLo838hfAz-bwhxvNLbN4yDRhMXwEHdAzSjBMjUx0GczSmDrA@mail.gmail.com> <20111226060601.GA68567@FreeBSD.org> <4EF9858D.9000607@FreeBSD.org> <CADLo83_A3Vr8i3xit1_6g-dyTNrkbJWGibC3Z4_qLLYdJPtw6Q@mail.gmail.com> <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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