Add a section on license names to the MacPorts guide?

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Mon Apr 23 19:19:15 UTC 2018


I'm thinking of adding the following to the MacPorts guide because we
often have problems with people picking invalid license names in
Portfile submissions.

That said, I'm not sure this is the best text for it. Thoughts?

Perry

diff --git a/guide/xml/portfile-keywords.xml b/guide/xml/portfile-keywords.xml
index 77559a4..066cc53 100644
--- a/guide/xml/portfile-keywords.xml
+++ b/guide/xml/portfile-keywords.xml
@@ -244,6 +244,16 @@
         sub-list.
         </para>
 
+        <para>Valid licenses are one of the following: afl agpl apache
+        apsl artistic autoconf beopen bitstreamvera boost bsd bsd-old
+        cc-by cc-by-sa cddl cecill cecill-b cecill-c cnri copyleft cpl
+        curl epl fpll fontconfig freetype gd gfdl gpl gplconflict
+        ibmpl ijg isc jasper lgpl libtool lppl mit mpl ncsa
+        noncommercial openldap openssl permissive php psf
+        public-domain qpl restrictive/distributable ruby sleepycat
+        ssleay tcl/tk vim w3c wtfpl wxwidgets x11 zlib zpl
+        </para>
+
         <para>If the version number is a
         <quote>.0</quote> version, the <quote>.0</quote> should be
         omitted to make the version an integer. If the author gives the choice


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