cvs commit: ports/www/moinmoin Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 20 09:25:07 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:32:16PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Wen Heping <wen at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > wen         2011-01-18 08:45:56 UTC
> >
> >   - Add license
> -----
> > +LICENSE=	GPLv2
> > +LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/docs/licenses/COPYING
> -----
> 
> This is a general question, just picking this commit up.
> Should we provide the license text if it's a standard one?
> My vote is "no"...

I would also said no.  In fact, I find it abusive and wrong to use the
LICENSE_FILE at all for standard licenses.  Then problem is that people
don't care, and we (ports people) do not do enough to educate them, and
even sometimes encourage mistakes by committing bad submissions.

./danfe


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