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Jason Stubbs wrote: [Sat Nov 22 2003, 12:49:31PM EST] |
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> Okay, I've assumed that | is the only modifier, that it means OR and |
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> that AND takes precedence. Attached is a very simple patch to emerge. |
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> You'll probably notice straight away that I've never really worked |
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> with python before. |
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What do you mean by OR vs. AND when referring to package licenses? What |
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is the semantic difference between the following? |
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LICENSE="GPL-1 GPL-2" |
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LICENSE="GPL-1 | GPL-2" |
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This is actually a loaded question. I suspect there isn't a consistent |
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practice in the tree. The problem is that some packages are released |
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under more than one license, whereas some packages contain multiple |
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pieces of software, each of which is released under a different license. |
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Take the app-vim/colorschemes package, for example. It is a |
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conglomeration of all the colorschemes found on vim.sf.net, so it |
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contains software released under different licenses. Presently the |
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package has |
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LICENSE="vim | GPL-2 | public-domain" |
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If this is wrong, I take complete responsibility... It's what I told |
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Ciaran to use. But the question is: Does this fit your definition of |
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OR vs. AND, and do other packages in the tree use the same definition? |
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> BTW, at what time should I post this to bugzilla? |
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Pretty soon. I'd say just as soon as we figure out this part. |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer (alpha / ia64 / ruby / vim) |
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