From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 5 2:10:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC6315158 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 02:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA10547; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:09:23 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36DFAD06.1FC3EE8E@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 19:08:06 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LICENSE References: <199903050725.XAA29996@newsguy.com> <19990305113616.A85635@rucus.ru.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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