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| author | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2009-04-30 12:27:16 +0000 |
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| committer | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2009-04-30 12:27:16 +0000 |
| commit | 95414cfa535b6797fc02fd4cdccd210ae85ed453 (patch) | |
| tree | 415f63befb02cc3dea4a3ad011c232235fe1a6d3 /mk | |
| parent | 61bd4127e606481adc754bd7111bffc8390d809f (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-95414cfa535b6797fc02fd4cdccd210ae85ed453.tar.gz | |
Point to the copy of DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in pkg_install
sources, and add a comment opining that there should be only a single
place to configure the default and per-machine lists for both source
and binary package building/installation.
Diffstat (limited to 'mk')
| -rw-r--r-- | mk/license.mk | 22 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mk/license.mk b/mk/license.mk index 84c1818f524..f3866bc975f 100644 --- a/mk/license.mk +++ b/mk/license.mk @@ -1,20 +1,24 @@ -# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.16 2009/04/29 23:50:07 gdt Exp $ +# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.17 2009/04/30 12:27:16 gdt Exp $ # # This file handles everything about the LICENSE variable. It is # included automatically by bsd.pkg.mk. # +# XXX There should be one place to set the default list and for users +# to set the ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES list, used by both source builds and +# binary installs# +# # XXX: Some of this content arguably belongs in the pkgsrc guide # instead. # # === User-settable variables === # # ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES -# If a package declares a license and that license is not a -# member of the list defined by this variable, pkgsrc will -# refuse to build the package. # -# XXX: pkg_install should also check LICENSE and decline to -# install if it is not in ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES. +# If a package declares a license and that license is not a +# member of the list defined by this variable, pkgsrc will not +# build the package and instead print an error message. +# (pkg_install has code to behave the same way, but it is not +# yet turned on.) # # XXX: Perhaps there should be some mechanism to prevent running # programs that are part of packages that declare LICENSEs that @@ -29,6 +33,7 @@ # === Package-settable variables === # # LICENSE +# # The license of the package. # # Sometimes licensing is other than a single text file. See @@ -66,6 +71,11 @@ # the effort were made. Such license names will have a comment # near them in the assignment to DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES. # +# The pkg_install sources also have a +# DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES list, and that should be updated +# to match the list here. See +# pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/files/lib/license.c +# # === See also === # # ../doc/TODO, section "Licenses of packages" |