Add a section on license names to the MacPorts guide?

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:24:20 -0500 Ryan Schmidt
<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2018, at 14:19, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > 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?  
> 
> I don't want yet another copy of the list of valid licenses, to
> become out of sync with the others. We already have them on a wiki
> page.

I had no idea. What's the URL? I could change this to just point at
that Wiki.

> If you want to *move* the list from the wiki page to the
> guide (leaving the wiki page essentially blank except for a link to
> the corresponding place in the guide), that would be great.

Either way is fine by me, I'll defer to everyone else.

> There was also talk at one point about switching from our somewhat
> custom license names to an official standard, such as
> https://spdx.org/licenses/, at which point we wouldn't need to keep
> our own list, but we're not there yet. (Is anybody working on that?)

That would be best of all, yes, and then we would just point at that.

Perry
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