On Apr 1, 2009, at 21:02, Rainer Müller wrote:
Having license information would be nice anyway in my opinion, regardless if it will be used for building binaries. It sounds easy to just add a new license field to the Portfile syntax. But the hard part will be to fill it with actual values. Maybe we could script something which asks freshmeat/sourceforge/ohloh for license information or scan for LICENSE in the work dir. But of course it would still require manual acknowledgment, I would not entirely rely on a script here.
I might just make it as simple as having "port lint" complain if the port doesn't specify the license. It's not too hard for a port maintainer to figure out and indicate what the license is, once they're made aware that they should do so.
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