* On 2026-06-10 at 11:16 BST, Alistair Crooks wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 17:30 Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:I disagree that Makefiles are merely metadata and below the threshold of copyright. Getting the Makefile for a package right is not trivial! They often contain some amount of code to move stuff around, setting build variables etc. As such, I consider them code.Yes, you are right about Makefiles, on reflection I agree they should be treated as code
If that's the case, then playing devil's advocate for a moment, why do we not have a 2-clause BSD license text at the start of each one?
I don't think we can rely on some overall covering license, given the various different licenses used in the tree. For example bsd.pkg.mk is explicitly marked as public domain, some wrapper scripts are 3-clause, etc.
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