Ticket #7493 (closed enhancement: fixed)
RFE: license metadata
| Reported by: | ben@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | MacPorts 1.8.0 |
| Component: | base | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | jmr@… | |
| Port: |
Description (last modified by jmr@…) (diff)
If DP intends to distribute binary packages, we'll run into some complex license issues, e.g.:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
If we're to keep track of these, it will be necessary to include a field for license type in the Portfile. Fink's example:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php?phpLang=en#licenses
I expect there are many license issues in individual ports -- e.g. doubt that all GPL ports install the COPYING flie as required.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by nox@…
- Priority changed from Expected to Normal
- Milestone set to MacPorts base enhancements
- Version 1.2 deleted
- Summary changed from RFE: license metatdata to RFE: license metadata
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by afb@…
Here is the current workaround for the Installer.app package target:
post-pkg {
if {[file exists ${workpath}/${name}-${version}.pkg/Contents/Resources/English.lproj]} {
set resources ${workpath}/${name}-${version}.pkg/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
} else {
set resources ${workpath}/${name}-${version}.pkg/Contents/Resources
}
file copy -force -- ${filespath}/License.html ${resources}
}
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by jmr@…
- Description modified (diff)
- Milestone changed from MacPorts base enhancements to MacPorts 1.8.0
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by jmr@…
- Status changed from new to closed
- Cc jmr@… added
- Resolution set to fixed
Added in r50801. For now the contents are unconstrained and nothing clever is done with the info (it's just displayed in port info output). We can change the former if it turns out to be necessary, and we'll definitely need to change the latter when we start building and distributing binaries.


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