Opened 18 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#7493 closed enhancement

RFE: license metatdata — at Initial Version

Reported by: ben@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone: MacPorts 1.8.0
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Description

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.

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