LICENSE questions

[Eitan Adler]

On 4 October 2016 at 00:25, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Le 04/10/2016 à 03:58, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen a écrit :
>> On 10/03/2016 07:34 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> On 3 October 2016 at 05:31, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
>>> <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:
>>>> On 10/02/2016 05:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>>> On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
>>>>> <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have
>>>>>> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk.  How do I set LICENSE in
>>>>>> those ports?
>>>>> The other answers are correct. If the license is standard (listed
>>>>> here: https://spdx.org/licenses/) we should add it to the main
>>>>> database.
>>>>>
>>>>>> An even tougher one is math/octave-forge-optim, where each individual
>>>>>> file has its own license.
>>>>> A "custom" license that merely states to check the distfiles should be
>>>>> sufficient.
>>>> How about a meta port, whose dependencies all have different licenses?
>>>> Something similar?
>>> meta-ports shouldn't define a license at all. I'm not sure we have a
>>> way to shut the warnings up though.
>> Could we use USES=metaport to suppress these messages?
>
> Suppress what messages ?

115 .if defined(LICENSE)
119 .else
120 DEV_WARNING+=   "Please set LICENSE for this port"
121 .endif


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Eitan Adler