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

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Wed Oct 12 08:31:16 PDT 2011


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:22:50AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > 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.

Shouldn't we have a license value for those, too? Rather than just
skipping the license line, we could have something like
	license	undetermined
to mark somebody has looked into the license for this port and there is
none.

-- 
Clemens Lang
GSoC Student



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