From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Nov 18 11:17:41 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4160A31512 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:17:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koobs.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-x236.google.com (mail-pa0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E6FE1EFA for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:17:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koobs.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: by pabfh17 with SMTP id fh17so43797395pab.0 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 03:17:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:reply-to:subject:references:to:from:cc:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vGbO65kTbW8jxAoR/chpoEbvO3eTQCuVfb8HzDR0QHc=; b=C/gYU8RKYTs7sl3L15BC1pawN2zpItGnlJsjNOxGgJA9YmAx1pI5BEztSjBQhQBXV5 46enneGICXCPss62ptni44kB/TAJLACcC/MImKNwwzHOul5xwbDWzSL1tHTOxxUXNIdZ 1l8H9v5IOov0SOmLGFu4B4647DW8Sjp9EjFCuT3f0a8WIOQVVAUOelaEXdNM7xUZAKPu 7yuWkj7VDLrdj6MSV4vwu54//AbQ56TSRVIGCZ3OCxhyg0e/72Y8dN79wU8ebgAgsWQS 3/O/ViFT1JTd8l29hNqkEYPqRzA8dSqAYORUHW4B1IZ9Rt5adqZJPtnv2YRejeV4RH4D 0+kg== X-Received: by 10.66.249.37 with SMTP id yr5mr1297715pac.24.1447845460780; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 03:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:44b8:31ae:7b01:1c8f:56f2:f75c:2786? (2001-44b8-31ae-7b01-1c8f-56f2-f75c-2786.static.ipv6.internode.on.net. [2001:44b8:31ae:7b01:1c8f:56f2:f75c:2786]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id er1sm3632907pbb.6.2015.11.18.03.17.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 03:17:40 -0800 (PST) Sender: Kubilay Kocak Reply-To: koobs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: License info Q References: <20151118114839.431a3adf@fabiankeil.de> To: Roger Marquis , freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de From: Kubilay Kocak X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <564C5E4E.2010906@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:17:34 +1100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/42.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151118114839.431a3adf@fabiankeil.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:17:41 -0000 On 18/11/2015 9:48 PM, Fabian Keil wrote: > Roger Marquis wrote: > >> I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages. >> >> Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have license >> info in their Makefile. Is there a reliable way to enumerate port or >> package license strings, preferably without fetching a package tarfile? > > No. Also note that the "license information" in the Makefiles is often > misleading[1] and thus not particular useful if you actually care about > license compliance. Fabian, If they're incorrect, please submit an issue to rectify them (either in ports, or upstream), like Awesome George has here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204638 > Unfortunately reporting incorrect license information seems to be > a waste of time so things are unlikely to improve any time soon: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195807 It's not a waste of time, it's a collaborative effort. For a full and complete response (that I urge you to read and consider completely), see the following thread, including my last reply: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2015-July/099906.html > Fabian > > [1] The lack of documentation doesn't help. In the meantime, we'll continue to attempt to annotate software metadata in the ports tree as best we can. P.S: Apologies for not honouring your Reply-To. ./koobs