LEGAL variable to capture generic issues

[Eitan Adler]

On 25 March 2013 09:36, Alex Dupre <ale at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Eitan Adler ha scritto:
>> I have been trying to capture the differences between LEGAL and the ports tree.
>> At this point I am convinced we need a new variable to capture in a
>> machine usable way issues such as "special permission granted to
>> distribute under the GPL" or "No license -- see
>> http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html".  Furthermore some ports define
>> NO_PACKAGE for reasons of legality (GPL issues) and others defined it
>> for other reasons (the package becomes too big).  We have no method to
>> differentiate between these two reasons.
>
> For license reasons we already have this:
>
> # RESTRICTED    - Prevent the distribution of distfiles and packages to
> #                                 the FTP sites or on CDROM (e.g.
> forbidden by license
> #                                 considerations).

RESTRICTED does not cover "special permission granted to distribute"
and other not-a-restriction things.


> and related /usr/ports/LEGAL entries.

The intent is to generate /usr/ports/LEGAL from the ports tree.
-- 
Eitan Adler