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CRAN (like CPAN, Gems etc for GNU R) has a rather interesting way of |
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specifying licenses: |
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License: GPL-2 |
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License: GPL (>= 2) | BSD |
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License: LGPL (>= 2.0, < 3) | Eclipse Public License |
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Is this something worth pinching for a future EAPI? If we go with the |
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postfix [] form for ranged deps, it'd translate into: |
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LICENSE="=GPL-2" (or equivalently, LICENSE="GPL[=2]") |
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LICENSE="|| ( GPL[>=2] BSD )" (or equivalently, ">=GPL-2") |
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LICENSE="|| ( LGPL[>=2&<3] Eclipse )" |
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One thing that would need to be decided: |
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LICENSE="GPL-2" |
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Would that require an = prefix? To simplify things, we could say that |
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*only* the postfix [] form counts for licenses... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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