custom license on new port?

[Chad Perrin]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:57:28AM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> got a new port. submitted by the copyright owner and author.
> for reference, pr ports/168832
> 
> there is no LICENSE= in the Makefile, no LICENSE.txt in the
> distribution, but it does have the attached in the main.c file.
> 
> Q: should I ask him to select one of the standard FreeBSD/GPL
> licenses (and edit his source )?

Why would you try to pressure him into changing the license?

As already pointed out, the license used is not a "custom" or
"nonstandard" license, but even if it was I do not think the ports system
needs to be in the business of deciding that some license that is not
already well-represented in the ports system is not "good enough" on the
basis of its relative lack of popularity alone.

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