pkg-fallout: License not correctly defined: defining both LICENSE_FILE and LICENSE_TEXT is not allowed

Chris portmaster at bsdforge.com
Thu May 13 16:32:17 UTC 2021


On 2021-05-13 09:08, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Chris (portmaster at bsdforge.com):
> 
>> HOWEVER the error returned by pkg-fallout@ makes absolutely no
>> sense at all, given the Makefile for the report contains only:
> 
> Foremost, that Makefile has an .include, and that's where the mess
> (for this use case) happens.
> From a quick glance, I'm not totally sure how that
> kde-icons-noia/Makefile.icons makes sense in the grand scheme of
> things (if it's that common functionality, should it live somewhere
> in Mk? if it's relevant only for a very limited number of ports, should
> it have some comments about that?), but the way it currently interacts
> with your port is not that fine: in the very least, it overwrites
> your LICENSE variables, which cannot be your intention. (Try
> "make -V LICENSE" in kde-icons-nuovoext2).
Sorry. My bad. LGPL3 is now included in the current LICENSE Templates.
So LICENSE_FILE is redundant && pkg-fallout (the ports framework) was
trying to use a "clue bat" to tell me so. ;-)

Sorry for the noise, and thanks for taking the time to reply.

--Chris
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph


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