Re: Why is the BSD 1-Clause License not supported "out of the box" on FreeBSD?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:48:16PM -0700, Chris wrote:
> I'm doing a full sweep of ports missing LICENSE and I continue
> to have to jump through additional hurdles to represent the
> BSD 1-Clause License in ports that use it. This has been puzzling
> be for some time. So I'm asking. Why isn't it represented in
> Mk/bsdlicenses.db.mk along with all the other BSD/MIT licenses?
> Is there something in it that doesn't agree with the Foundations
> policies? I've read the License Guide[1]. It's listed as OSI
> approved[2] and it has an SPDX-License-Identifier[3]. Is this an
> appropriate place to ask this question? Or is this something I
> need to direct to core@ ?

It's uncommon (being AFACT an overly verbose version of MIT) so no one
added it?

Why not submit a patch instead of assuming a conspiracy?

-- Brooks