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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 12, 2011, at 10:31, Clemens Lang wrote:
> 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.

We've previously explicitly added "license unknown" to a few ports to indicate that. But that doesn't help differentiate in a search between those where we've already checked and those where we haven't.