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| author | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2009-04-23 12:10:15 +0000 |
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| committer | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2009-04-23 12:10:15 +0000 |
| commit | 8448ec12800fbbbbaaa1497af1991a0679ba5560 (patch) | |
| tree | 0461a4931a5c8aaa28290f1c0fbfd60ed3c5b666 /mk/license.mk | |
| parent | 2480e621b2b55c6db59eb566ce0263e276c84606 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-8448ec12800fbbbbaaa1497af1991a0679ba5560.tar.gz | |
Adjust to current reality
remove comment about '#LICENSE=' lines because license.mk is not
live
rephrase comment saying that we will likely add licenses not
formally Free or Open source to the default list if they are
obviously approvable, but we'll note this with comments
Diffstat (limited to 'mk/license.mk')
| -rw-r--r-- | mk/license.mk | 17 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mk/license.mk b/mk/license.mk index 52b98e27293..2142468050c 100644 --- a/mk/license.mk +++ b/mk/license.mk @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.13 2009/04/23 12:06:05 gdt Exp $ +# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.14 2009/04/23 12:10:15 gdt Exp $ # # Note: This file is in draft state and not yet included in default # pkgsrc operations. @@ -39,13 +39,9 @@ # licensing (a choice) or where multiple licenses apply # simultaneously. # -# Every package should specify its license. (Prior to July 2007, +# Every package should specify its license. (Prior to early 2009, # Open Source and Free software did not have license tags.) # -# As of 2008-01, we are adding #LICENSE=; until this file is -# included from bsd.pkg.mk such tags will cause failure because -# DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES is not yet implemented. -# # Licenses are collected in the licenses/ subdirectory of # pkgsrc. For open source license, we generally use the same # names as either the Open Source Initiative or the Free @@ -68,6 +64,11 @@ # ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES; the point is to have a default that very # few people want to shrink.) # +# Licenses not formally approved as Free or Open Source may be +# added if they have terms that would obviously be approved if +# the effort were made. Such license names will have a comment +# near them in the assignment to DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES. +# # === See also === # # ../doc/TODO, section "Licenses of packages" @@ -83,10 +84,6 @@ # XXX open-font-license should perhaps be changed to open-font -# XXX Surely we will encounter licenses that clearly are Free, but -# which have not been formally approved. These licenses, if added, -# should be somehow marked. - DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES= \ public-domain \ gnu-gpl-v2 gnu-lgpl-v2 gnu-lgpl-v2.1 \ |