Roger Marquis <marq...@roble.com> wrote: > I need to get license info from a batch of ports and packages. > > Problem is not all the specified ports/pkgs are installed or have license > info in their Makefile. Is there a reliable way to enumerate port or > package license strings, preferably without fetching a package tarfile?
No. Also note that the "license information" in the Makefiles is often misleading[1] and thus not particular useful if you actually care about license compliance. Unfortunately reporting incorrect license information seems to be a waste of time so things are unlikely to improve any time soon: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195807 Fabian [1] The lack of documentation doesn't help.
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