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Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
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--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
@@ -3308,6 +3308,45 @@
MAINTAINER variable in the <filename>Makefile</filename>.</para>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 xml:id="makefile-license">
+ <title><varname>LICENSE</varname></title>
+
+ <para>Set <varname>LICENSE</varname> to let the ports infrastructure know
+ how the code is licensed. For example:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>LICENSE= BSD3CLAUSE</programlisting>
+
+ <para>The
+ <link xlink:href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">SPDX license list</link>
+ is the canonical source for license identifiers used in the ports
+ infrastructure, subject to the following rules:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Strip the hyphens and periods, as in the example above.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>If the port is under multiple licenses, use a space-separated
+ list.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ports licensed with an <quote>or higher</quote> clause such as
+ <quote>GPLv2 or higher</quote> are written as <quote>GPLv2+</quote>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>See <filename>/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.licenses.db.mk</filename> for
+ details.</para>
+
+ <para>If the port contains a file with the full text of the license, set
+ <varname>LICENSE_FILE</varname> to point to it:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>LICENSE_FILE= ${WRKSRC}/LICENSE</programlisting>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 xml:id="makefile-portscout">
<title><varname>PORTSCOUT</varname></title>

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