Sharing my ports tree development notes

[Joshua Root]

Everything used to be in one repo, so the intent would have been for the 
doc subdir to be the same license as base and ports. BSD licensing isn't 
the best fit for documentation but it's adequate. If someone wants a 
project, contacting all the guide contributors and obtaining permission 
to relicense under a better documentation license would be one. :)

- Josh

On 2/9/2026 05:40, Mark E Anderson wrote:
> I’m interested in what the license is as well, I have an asciidoc 
> version that I’m trying to update with how the portgroups work and bring 
> up to date. Mostly for myself, since I’ve been trying to understand the 
> internals better but never hurts to share.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, at 10:58 AM, Zero King wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm sharing some notes I've written based on my experience contributing
>> to the ports tree. Source code for the notes is at
>> https://github.com/l2dy/ports-dev-notes <https://github.com/l2dy/ 
>> ports-dev-notes> and a generated PDF file is
>> available on https://l2dy.github.io/ports-dev-notes/ <https:// 
>> l2dy.github.io/ports-dev-notes/> for the time being.
>>
>> Regarding its license, while I intended to use the same license as
>> https://github.com/macports/macports-guide <https://github.com/ 
>> macports/macports-guide>, I didn't find a license file
>> in it. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Feedback and discussions, either in reply to this email or through
>> GitHub issues in my repo, are welcome!
>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>> Zero King
>>
> —Mark
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