LICENSE questions

Montgomery-Smith, Stephen stephen at missouri.edu
Mon Oct 3 12:32:40 UTC 2016


On 10/02/2016 05:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 2 October 2016 at 14:44, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
> <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:
>> So I have a couple of ports, science/cdf and graphics/opendx, which have
>> licenses I can't find in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk.  How do I set LICENSE in
>> those ports?
> 
> The other answers are correct. If the license is standard (listed
> here: https://spdx.org/licenses/) we should add it to the main
> database.
> 
>> An even tougher one is math/octave-forge-optim, where each individual
>> file has its own license.
> 
> A "custom" license that merely states to check the distfiles should be
> sufficient.

How about a meta port, whose dependencies all have different licenses?
Something similar?


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