[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/mk Document notion that Free/Open licenses do not end ...

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details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/633ea373697c
branches:  trunk
changeset: 537468:633ea373697c
user:      gdt <gdt%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date:      Wed Jan 09 14:38:05 2008 +0000

description:
Document notion that Free/Open licenses do not end in -license.

diffstat:

 mk/license.mk |  28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diffs (60 lines):

diff -r 911c9f8754b0 -r 633ea373697c mk/license.mk
--- a/mk/license.mk     Wed Jan 09 14:10:06 2008 +0000
+++ b/mk/license.mk     Wed Jan 09 14:38:05 2008 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.9 2007/11/08 19:31:05 joerg Exp $
+# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.10 2008/01/09 14:38:05 gdt Exp $
 #
-# Note: This file is in draft state and not yet actively used.
+# Note: This file is in draft state and not yet included in default
+# pkgsrc operations.
 #
 # This file handles everything about the LICENSE variable. It is
 # included automatically by bsd.pkg.mk.
@@ -33,17 +34,18 @@
 # LICENSE
 #      The license of the package.
 #
-#      When the package has multiple licenses, there are many different
-#      cases. Some packages use an OR-combination, while others use an
-#      AND-combination. Currently, pkgsrc can only handle a single
-#      license per package. For now, add a description of the licensing
-#      to ../doc/TODO, section "Licenses of packages".  Note that in
-#      such cases, one can place the text of both licenses in
-#      licenses/foo-license and reference it.
-#
+#      Sometimes licensing is other than a single text file.  See
+#      doc/TODO for discussion of how to handle packages with dual
+#      licensing (a choice) or where multiple licenses apply
+#      simultaneously.
+# 
 #      Every package should specify its license.  (Prior to July 2007,
 #      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
@@ -74,6 +76,11 @@
 # This list is not complete.  Free and Open Source licenses should be
 # added to the list as they are added to pkgsrc.
 
+# The convention is that Free or Open Source licenses do not have a
+# -license suffix, and nonfree licenses end in -license.
+
+# 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.
@@ -89,6 +96,7 @@
        open-font-license
 
 .if !defined(LICENSE)
+# XXX Revisit date.
 .  if defined(AFTER_2007Q3)
 LICENSE?=              unknown
 PKG_FAIL_REASON+=      "[license.mk] Every package must define a LICENSE."