On 25 Feb 2005, Christopher W. Richardson wrote:

> Is there any easy way to tell what license a given package comes
> under?  For most (at least the ones I care about and have tried)

Not at this time. And not easily.

Many packages are licensed under multiple licenses. It would be quite time
consuming to make pkgsrc/licenses files for all the packages.

But I guess for some we could include some generic licenses in the
pkgsrc/licenses directory and use some variable to define which ones and
then pre-define
ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES?=	GPL LGPL BSD2 BSD3 BSD4 publicdomain etc...

On a related note, we should be sure to include (with installation) of any
licenses that require license to be available with binary packages.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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