svn commit: r51178 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 05/11/2017 à 21:42, Eitan Adler a écrit :
> On 5 November 2017 at 10:58, Remko Lodder <remko at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On 5 Nov 2017, at 06:20, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4 November 2017 at 15:27, Danilo G. Baio <dbaio at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> Author: dbaio (ports committer)
>>>> Date: Sat Nov  4 22:27:03 2017
>>>> New Revision: 51178
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51178
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>  books/porters-handbook: Update list of licenses
>>>>
>>>>  Reviewed by:  rene
>>>>  Approved by:  rene
>>>>  Differential Revision:        D12943
>>>>
>>>> Modified:
>>>>  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
>>> I mentioned this on review as well:
>>>
>>> We should point to SPDX https://spdx.org/licenses/ for almost all
>>> licenses instead of redocumenting them here.
>> I dont think this is wrong. Having a local explanation of what licenses -we- use is
>> good enough. The moment that spdx.org somehow gets unavailable, we still have
>> our local information about it.
> Sure - so long as until they (a group managed by the Linux Foundation)
> go out of existence - we remain in sync with them.


Note that *our* source of information is Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk, the list
we have in the Porter's Handbook is a direct extract from what we have
in the ports tree. There is a shell script to auto-generate the table.


-- 
Mathieu Arnold