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 :) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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