Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 05:34:23 -0700 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: <CAF6rxg=uSmn05Kc6sHycwF=FYO%2BhrRVLJi5NNPd4hVq=oott_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d456df7f-259e-8c1b-5178-8e9a5e948718@missouri.edu> References: <b2a4e74d-cbe3-d70e-553c-dcfbdc9442f1@missouri.edu> <CAF6rxgmQuK31iiNoE57sJcTVaqDdSmB6Pf%2BBYwmbWWBtrtYGYg@mail.gmail.com> <d456df7f-259e-8c1b-5178-8e9a5e948718@missouri.edu>
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On 3 October 2016 at 05:31, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote: > On 10/02/2016 05:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> 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. > > How about a meta port, whose dependencies all have different licenses? > Something similar? meta-ports shouldn't define a license at all. I'm not sure we have a way to shut the warnings up though. -- Eitan Adler
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