[85256] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portlint.tcl

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 12, 2011, at 06:30, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> unknown license is not an error
> 
> Having an unknown license immediately prevents distribution of a port archive. Not only that, as soon as a port is found to be not distributable everything after it in the dependency tree is also blocked.

That's true.


> Why should leaving the license field empty, and blocking so many others ports from being able to be distributed, be acceptable?

There are ports for which we cannot determine the license. It would be annoying to keep receiving lint notices for something we can't change. Hopefully there aren't so many of these though.