Use of license in ports Makefile

Sahil Tandon sahil at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 29 02:37:05 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:52:42 -0400, Carmel wrote:

> I have a application that I want to port to FreeBSD. It is licensed
> under the BSD license from what I can understand. In the new port's
> Makefile, would I just put something like this:
> 
> license:	BSD

No; instead:

LICENSE=	BSD

> Finally, do I have to use anything other than:
> 
> .include <bsd.port.mk>

bsd.port.mk pulls in bsd.licenses.mk.

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at FreeBSD.org>


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