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

wen heping wenheping at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 10:18:40 UTC 2011


2011/1/20 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
> 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
>


I do not think it is a wrong use when set LICENSE_FILE even it's a standard one.
What is its harm ? It could at least help the user to find the license
file easily.

wen


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