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From: Lorenzo Salvadore <phascolarctos@protonmail.ch>
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Subject: Re: How to exclude some sparse files from LICENSE_DISTFILES
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> On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 12:24:54PM +0000, Lorenzo Salvadore via freebsd-p=
orts wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > I am trying to adopt and update a port which has no license specified.
> > Almost all files are under public domain, but there are some exceptions=
, not all
> > in the same directories, so I would need to assign to LICENSE_DISTFILES=
_PD
> > a value that means "all files are under public domain unless otherwise =
stated".
> > I thought I could use something like LICENSE_DISTFILES_PD!=3D$(find ...=
 ), but I know
> > that !=3D is discouraged ( https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-=
ports/2008-July/049777.html ).
> > Is there some nice solution to this problem? Maybe just not defining LI=
CENSE_DISTFILES_PD?
> > Defining an ALMOSTPD license?
>
> LICENSE_DISTFILES* is about distfiles, the things in
> /usr/ports/distfiles, not about the files in the work directory. You
> can say "this tar.gz is PD, and this tar.gz is GPL" but not more than tha=
t.
>
> What you want is
>
> LICENSE=3D PD OTHER
> LICENSE_COMB=3D multi
>
> (Note if the other license is not defined, you have to define it
> further.)

Thank you very much. Indeed, I had misunderstood the documentation:
now everything is clear (and I have some new ports to correct).

Lorenzo Salvadore.