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sources, and add a comment opining that there should be only a single
place to configure the default and per-machine lists for both source
and binary package building/installation.
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# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.16 2009/04/29 23:50:07 gdt Exp $
# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.17 2009/04/30 12:27:16 gdt Exp $
#
# This file handles everything about the LICENSE variable. It is
# included automatically by bsd.pkg.mk.
#
# XXX There should be one place to set the default list and for users
# to set the ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES list, used by both source builds and
# binary installs#
#
# XXX: Some of this content arguably belongs in the pkgsrc guide
# instead.
#
# === User-settable variables ===
#
# ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES
# If a package declares a license and that license is not a
# member of the list defined by this variable, pkgsrc will
# refuse to build the package.
#
# XXX: pkg_install should also check LICENSE and decline to
# install if it is not in ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.
# If a package declares a license and that license is not a
# member of the list defined by this variable, pkgsrc will not
# build the package and instead print an error message.
# (pkg_install has code to behave the same way, but it is not
# yet turned on.)
#
# XXX: Perhaps there should be some mechanism to prevent running
# programs that are part of packages that declare LICENSEs that
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# === Package-settable variables ===
#
# LICENSE
#
# The license of the package.
#
# Sometimes licensing is other than a single text file. See
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# the effort were made. Such license names will have a comment
# near them in the assignment to DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.
#
# The pkg_install sources also have a
# DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES list, and that should be updated
# to match the list here. See
# pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/files/lib/license.c
#
# === See also ===
#
# ../doc/TODO, section "Licenses of packages"