limit license types to a predefined set

[brecht]

The PortLog plugin should present a limited list of licenses to choose from. This list of licenses should be stored on the database. Each license should point to an external page which describes the license.

The list of licenses should ideally be editable from within a custom section within the Trac admin panel.

[scottmc]

Perhaps use the same naming format as Gentoo Portage does?
Typically when I post a new port I copy/paste the description and the license name from the Gentoo Portage entry.

[mmadia]

Capturing an email reply:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@…> wrote:

Please don't. There are many pieces of software that use more than one
license, which a user-editable textbox more easily allows to accomodate. See
Mono for instance (compilers+tools under GPL, class libraries under MIT/X11)
or QEMU (some files BSD, MIT/X11, (L)GPLv2+; GPLv2 as a whole).

Andreas

In addition to the above, some software uses a custom license. OpenSSL for example uses two BSD-style licenses.

[brecht]

Replying to mmadia:

Capturing an email reply:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@…> wrote:

Please don't. There are many pieces of software that use more than one
license, which a user-editable textbox more easily allows to accomodate. See
Mono for instance (compilers+tools under GPL, class libraries under MIT/X11)
or QEMU (some files BSD, MIT/X11, (L)GPLv2+; GPLv2 as a whole).

Andreas

In addition to the above, some software uses a custom license. OpenSSL for example uses two BSD-style licenses.

These are some very good points contra. Let's leave it like it is for now.