License info Q

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 18/11/2015 9:48 PM, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:
> 
>> I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages.
>>
>> Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have license
>> info in their Makefile.  Is there a reliable way to enumerate port or
>> package license strings, preferably without fetching a package tarfile?
> 
> No. Also note that the "license information" in the Makefiles is often
> misleading[1] and thus not particular useful if you actually care about
> license compliance.

Fabian,

If they're incorrect, please submit an issue to rectify them (either in
ports, or upstream), like Awesome George has here:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204638

> Unfortunately reporting incorrect license information seems to be
> a waste of time so things are unlikely to improve any time soon:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195807

It's not a waste of time, it's a collaborative effort. For a full and
complete response (that I urge you to read and consider completely), see
the following thread, including my last reply:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2015-July/099906.html

> Fabian
> 
> [1] The lack of documentation doesn't help.

In the meantime, we'll continue to attempt to annotate software metadata
in the ports tree as best we can.

P.S: Apologies for not honouring your Reply-To.

./koobs