svn commit: r345472 - in head/mail: mmr smtpfeed

[Eitan Adler]

On 10 March 2014 10:33, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> +--On 10 mars 2014 14:16:42 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
> | On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:51:24PM +0000, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> |> New Revision: 345472
> |> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/345472
> |> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r345472/
> |>
> |> Log:
> |>   Restore LICENSE_FILE as mat pointed out that BSD licenses have
> |>   copyright holder in them.
> |>
> |> [...]
> |>
> |>  LICENSE=    GPLv2
> |> +LICENSE_FILE=       ${WRKSRC}/COPYING
> |
> | But this on is GPLv2, no?
>
> Yes, and ? I pointed that out for the BSD licenses, but it's true for most
> of them.
> The only reason for not having a LICENSE_FILE, would be the port only
> saying it's GPLv2 without shipping with the file.

LICENSE= is largely useless for actual lawyers, but setting
LICENSE_FILE can be kind of helpful.
In addition setting LICENSE_FILE can help to find mistakes in LICENSE=
more easily.

IMHO LICENSE_FILE should always be set.

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Eitan Adler
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