On Wed 26 Jan 2011 at 01:13:50 PST Emanuel Haupt wrote:
Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:17:29 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
> Today on FreshPorts I see some bulk commits adding LICENSE info to
> 40+ ports. And I've noticed LICENSE being added in many other recent
> commits.
Right, ehaupt@ updated several of his ports to include LICENSE.
I was very reluctant to do so but now that the license framework has
been around for some time I thought I give it a go.
As Sahil pointed out it's entirely up to you. Better have no license
specified if you're not sure about it. You can not always trust the
included COPYING file. There are many cases where a port comes with
several different licenses. I found that cross checking with different
linux distros could often bring some clarification.
Good tips, thanks. There's also often some licensing info in the
author's manpage, website, or other documentation.
I'm not going to submit a flurry of PR's to add this to all my ports,
but I will begin gathering the info so I can include it as part of any
other updates.
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