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Date:      Sun, 2 Oct 2016 18:27:31 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: LICENSE questions
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgmQuK31iiNoE57sJcTVaqDdSmB6Pf%2BBYwmbWWBtrtYGYg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
<stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:
> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have
> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk.  How do I set LICENSE in
> those ports?

The other answers are correct. If the license is standard (listed
here: https://spdx.org/licenses/) we should add it to the main
database.

> An even tougher one is math/octave-forge-optim, where each individual
> file has its own license.

A "custom" license that merely states to check the distfiles should be
sufficient.




-- 
Eitan Adler



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