Openssl: built-in or ports?

[Ryan Schmidt]

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.