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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2018 11:53:47 +0200
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lorenzo Salvadore <phascolarctos@protonmail.ch>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
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-por=
ts wrote:
> Hello.
>=20
> 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 st=
ated".
>=20
> 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-po=
rts/2008-July/049777.html ).
>=20
> Is there some nice solution to this problem? Maybe just not defining LICE=
NSE_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 that.

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.)

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Mathieu Arnold

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