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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 1999 19:08:06 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: LICENSE
Message-ID:  <36DFAD06.1FC3EE8E@newsguy.com>
References:  <199903050725.XAA29996@newsguy.com> <19990305113616.A85635@rucus.ru.ac.za>

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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 
> On Thu 1999-03-04 (23:25), Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> > Would it be too outrageous to suggest adding a LICENSE file to each ports'
> > description? With the host of ports we have today, with much overlap between
> > some of them, being able to quickly check the license
> > for each port you are considering would be... nice. :-)
> 
> Perhaps we could introduce a LICENSE variable into Makefile to circumvent
> having multiple copies of licenses floating about?  For those with
> "different" (ie, not BSD, artistic, GPL, etc) licenses, we can then include a
> license file (and the LICENSE variable points to it)?
> 
> If needs be we can then copy the license described in the LICENSE variable
> into /var/db/pkg/foo-1.0/+LICENSE, by adding a -L license to pkg_create?
> 
> (yes, I am volunteering, I suppose.)
> 
> This would require carrying the various common licenses somewhere in the
> ports-base, I think, though.

I would be happy with that. (Specially if the web interface supports
it :)

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

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