Re: Use of license in ports Makefile

2010-10-29 Thread Carmel
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:37:02 -0400 Sahil Tandon sa...@freebsd.org articulated: On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:52:42 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have a application that I want to port to FreeBSD. It is licensed under the BSD license from what I can understand. In the new port's Makefile, would I

Re: Use of license in ports Makefile

2010-10-29 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 28/10/2010 00:52, Carmel wrote: I have a application that I want to port to FreeBSD. It is licensed under the BSD license from what I can understand. In the new port's Makefile, would I just put something like this: ... To my understanding this LICENSE stuff is not mature. And the more

Re: Use of license in ports Makefile

2010-10-29 Thread Alberto Villa
On Friday 29 October 2010 10:58:49 Carmel wrote: Should I just remove them and place the .include bsd.port.mk entry in their place; or add it to the list of other includes? I cannot find any documentation specifically defining what to do. I thought I had read the Porter's Handbook

Re: Use of license in ports Makefile

2010-10-29 Thread Carmel
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:21:34 + Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org articulated: On Friday 29 October 2010 10:58:49 Carmel wrote: Should I just remove them and place the .include bsd.port.mk entry in their place; or add it to the list of other includes? I cannot find any documentation

Re: Use of license in ports Makefile

2010-10-28 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:52:42 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have a application that I want to port to FreeBSD. It is licensed under the BSD license from what I can understand. In the new port's Makefile, would I just put something like this: license: BSD No; instead: LICENSE=BSD

Use of license in ports Makefile

2010-10-27 Thread Carmel
I have a application that I want to port to FreeBSD. It is licensed under the BSD license from what I can understand. In the new port's Makefile, would I just put something like this: license:BSD or would that not work? Suppose it was licensed under a public domain license. How would