Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:59:27 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: what exactly does LICENSE= do? Message-ID: <201306200959.r5K9xRh2088912@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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I have LICENSE= GPLv3 in my port, and as a result I have these 3 files installed: $ ls -al /usr/local/share/licenses/robodoc-4.99.41/ total 104 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 20 10:07 . drwxr-xr-x 138 root wheel 3584 Jun 20 10:07 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 35147 Jun 20 10:07 GPLv3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 81 Jun 20 10:07 LICENSE -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 205 Jun 20 10:07 catalog.mk I note that sec 12.20. Miscellanea of the Porter's handbook says: *quote* Do not copy more copies of the GNU General Public License into our system, please. *end quote* I'm not clear whether this refers to ports installing GPL licenses via LICENSE=, or separately via other ports installs? Should I set NO_LICENSES_INSTALL, as there seems to be no point installing text of GPLv3? Or is the licensing data required by the pkgng framework, for some checks or reporting? I'm a bit confused Thanks Anton
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