LICENSE questions

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 04/10/2016 à 09:29, Eitan Adler a écrit :
> On 4 October 2016 at 00:25, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Le 04/10/2016 à 03:58, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen a écrit :
>>> On 10/03/2016 07:34 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>> On 3 October 2016 at 05:31, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
>>>> <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 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?
>>>> meta-ports shouldn't define a license at all. I'm not sure we have a
>>>> way to shut the warnings up though.
>>> Could we use USES=metaport to suppress these messages?
>> Suppress what messages ?
> 115 .if defined(LICENSE)
> 119 .else
> 120 DEV_WARNING+=   "Please set LICENSE for this port"
> 121 .endif

Mmmm, this is a warning, not an error, it tells you "dude, maybe you
need to do this".
I don't see a good reason to complicate the logic more.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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