ports licenses

Alexander Churanov alexanderchuranov at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 15:13:52 UTC 2010


2010/5/31 Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org>:
> Matthew already pointed out CHANGES. A heads-up to this list from the
> author may have been nice but it really isn't that big of a deal. Maybe,
> for all I know, a message to this list is coming once everything is
> ironed out.
>
> Formal policies that mandate this kind of stuff is unnecessary in my
> opinion.
>
>> I've also just got to know about LICENSE* from this discussion thread.
>> And I'm sure my ports do not contain license information.
>
> Like I said, I'd wait until it is clearly documented in the canonical
> source before I even begin to deal with it. I'm waiting on Porter's
> Handbook documentation that tells me how to use it. Not using this new
> LICENSE stuff in your ports is not harming anything right now, so just
> sit tight and wait until it's properly documented. None of my ports
> contain license information right now either.
>
> The author (alepulver@) has said in CHANGES that a PH entry will be
> available soon.
>
> -- WXS

OK, Thank you for clarification.

Alexander Churanov,
maintainer of devel/boost-*


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