Ports licenses - report 5
Alejandro Pulver
alepulver at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 16 23:00:01 UTC 2009
Hello,
The following happened in the last weeks:
The FOSSology port has been committed to CVS as devel/fossology, and
works fine in FreeBSD/i386 7.2. Installation and configuration is mostly
automated. However there are still problems in FreeBSD/amd64 8. Anyways,
current version (1.1) is relatively slow and analyzes every text file
for license information, so it takes about 5 to 15 minutes per port. For
the 1.2 release, only "possible" licenses will be analyzed and it should
run faster. Also it will support FSF, OSI, Fedora and more groups for
all licenses (currently 360 supported).
The following features were added to bsd.licenses.mk:
- Dual/Multi licenses support (see comments and wiki for details).
- Optional GUI menus (with dialog).
- Simulate RESTRICTED behavior (for clean-* targets, used in
package/distfile redistribution, like when compiling redistributable
optical media).
See the wiki for details:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsLicenseInfrastructure
I've also sent a HEADSUP to developers@ for some feedback, but it may
not get much attention because of the work in the upcoming FreeBSD release.
I believe the project has completed the proposed goals (my mentor was
busy and will review progress next week), but I'll do some changes based
on feedback, corrections and additional features (as saving accepted
licenses, with checksum).
Regards,
Ale
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