On 25 March 2013 09:36, Alex Dupre <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Eitan Adler ha scritto: >> I have been trying to capture the differences between LEGAL and the ports >> tree. >> At this point I am convinced we need a new variable to capture in a >> machine usable way issues such as "special permission granted to >> distribute under the GPL" or "No license -- see >> http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html". Furthermore some ports define >> NO_PACKAGE for reasons of legality (GPL issues) and others defined it >> for other reasons (the package becomes too big). We have no method to >> differentiate between these two reasons. > > For license reasons we already have this: > > # RESTRICTED - Prevent the distribution of distfiles and packages to > # the FTP sites or on CDROM (e.g. > forbidden by license > # considerations).
RESTRICTED does not cover "special permission granted to distribute" and other not-a-restriction things. > and related /usr/ports/LEGAL entries. The intent is to generate /usr/ports/LEGAL from the ports tree. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"