license field

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Feb 17 11:49:09 PST 2011


On 2011-2-18 06:39 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> I could have sworn I saw a place where the portfile "license" field was documented, but I'll be darned if I can find it now, even with a search engine. Does anyone else know where it is? Sorry if I'm being daft.
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/snc/licenses

The info on that page mostly looks good, but it incorrectly states that
the Apache license is equivalent to BSD. In fact it's different enough
that the 1.x versions conflict with all GPL versions and 2.0 conflicts
with GPLv2.

- Josh


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