svn commit: r303225 - in head/emulators: virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-additions virtualbox-ose-kmod virtualbox-ose/files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 27 13:27:52 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 03:24:00PM +0200, Bernhard Fr?hlich wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:53:41PM +0000, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> >> +LICENSE=     GPLv2
> >> +LICENSE_FILE=        ${WRKSRC}/COPYING
> >
> > Why specify LICENSE_FILE for standard licenses?  License framework was
> > supposed to reduce filesystem spamming with identical copies of GPL, not to
> > contribute to it further.
> 
> Ever looked at that file before complaining? It is GPLv2 but with a few notes
> that make it worth keeping:

I was not complaining, I was asking.  Given all the exceptions below, I in
turn wonder if it's OK to set LICENSE to GPLv2.

./danfe



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