From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 21:40:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6D8106566B for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 21:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.50.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4FC8FC22 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 21:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 946175C18; Sun, 30 May 2010 17:40:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:40:38 -0400 From: Wesley Shields To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100530214038.GB52886@atarininja.org> References: <4C02C8A7.306@freebsd.org> <20100530212944.GO216@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100530212944.GO216@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: ports licenses X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 21:40:39 -0000 On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 02:29:45PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sun 30 May 2010 at 13:20:55 PDT Rene Ladan wrote: > >Hi, > > > >While adding license information to my ports (to be committed), I > >stumbled upon the following: > > Is this something all maintainers should be doing? > > Yesterday, while upgrading my installed ports, I noticed a message in > the output about LICENSE not being defined. I also see that there's now > a bsd.licenses.mk and a bsd.licenses.db.mk in /usr/ports/Mk. I don't > recall seeing those before, and don't know how long they've been there. > Anyway, it looks like we're going ahead with this infrastructure, and I > think that's a good thing. > > What actions do you need from me as a maintainer? They are both fairly new constructs. I don't recall exact dates but they are new enough that the documentation for them has not caught up yet that I'm aware of. I'd wait until the Porter's Handbook is updated for further clarification on what to do. I'd also say that if you have a regular update planned for a port that you submit the license information with that. -- WXS