On Sun, 7 Jun 2026, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Is it that pkgsrc is basically either not worthy of copyright or taken
> from upstream, so there is no issue?
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.
--
Benny
Yes, you are right about Makefiles, on reflection I agree they should be treated as code
Thanks for keeping me honest :),
Al