Portfile license attribute with CC0-1.0 license
Frank Dean
frank at fdsd.co.uk
Mon Aug 23 21:57:58 UTC 2021
Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> writes:
> On Aug 23, 2021, at 11:39, Frank Dean wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am creating a Portfile for a project that uses the Creative Commons
>> CC0 licence [1]. I have specified the licence in the Portfile as:
>>
>> license CC0-1.0
>>
>> [1]: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
>>
>> Note that the first character after CC is a zero.
>>
>> When I run `port lint`, I get the following error:
>>
>> Error: invalid license 'CC0-1.0': missing hyphen before version
>> ---> 1 errors and 0 warnings found.
>>
>> The validation logic in `portlint.tcl` is to split the string on the
>> hyphen and treat it as invalid, if the last character of the first part
>> is a digit.
>>
>> Should I represent the CC0 licence in another way, ignore the error, or
>> is a fix needed to `portlint.tcl`?
>
> This is a portfile development question so the macports-dev mailing list would be a better place to ask.
>
> MacPorts license checking code (port_binary_distributable.tcl) does not recognize the license name "CC0" but the license is a formalization of public domain, so just write "license public-domain". You can add a comment line above that mentioning that it's really CC0, like some other ports (mypaint-brushes, libb2) already do.
>
> Some day we may overhaul our license handling to use SPDX identifiers but we don't use them as of this time.
Many thanks. I'll use macports-dev next time.
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