recent xorg ports commit causes breakage due to "unknown" x11 license

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Tue Sep 20 13:28:06 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Christoph Moench-Tegeder
<cmt at burggraben.net> wrote:
> Good Morning (or whatever time of day you have right now),
>
> the recent update of 28 xorg ports (iceauth, libXcursor, ...) introduces
> a "LICENSE= x11" line in most of the updated ports. Trouble is, that
> license is not known in Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk. As licenses are taken
> quite seriously (and should be), I'm not sending a patch into the blue,
> I'm not sure
> - if the license sould be spelled "x11" or rather "X11"
> - how to add the license to licenses.db correctly
> - if that license should be there at all.
>
> I just wanted to bring this up, as an "unknown" license causes the
> port build to break.


This was my fault, I committed when I too tired and accidentally used
"X11" instead of "MIT".  This has been fixed, so just rerun portsnap
(or csup) and try again.

-- 
Eitan Adler


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