Openssl: built-in or ports?

[David Evans]

Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2009-04-02 12:54, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> Absolutely. We already need a flag for whether distfiles may be  
>> distributed. William is currently maintaining that list manually in  
>> his mirror script, which isn't optimal. Anyone have a suggestion for  
>> what such a flag could be called?
>>     
>
> Either we make two flags, so this would be for mirroring:
>   mirror.restricted yes
>
> Or we integrate this into a 'licenses' option:
>   licenses BSD
>   licenses GPL
>   licenses Restricted BSD
>   licenses Restricted NoMirror
>
> So multiple licenses can be named if parts are under different licenses,
> with "Restricted" just naming something proprietary and "NoMirror"
> indicating we are not allowed to mirror distfiles.
>
> Rainer
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>   
For some ports, licensing is dependent on variant selected.  For 
instance, ffmpeg
is GPL by default but is LGPL if the +no_gpl variant is specified 
causing GPL modules to be disabled.

This would work in these cases if it is acceptable to declare licenses 
in a variant definition clause.