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From: Torsten Veller <tove@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: License groups in ebuilds
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 19:50:49
Message-Id: 20120512214342.TA3edae7.tv@veller.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: License groups in ebuilds by Ciaran McCreesh
1 * Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>:
2 > On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:05:06 +0200
3 > Torsten Veller <tove@g.o> wrote:
4 > > The perl-module.eclass offers a default LICENSE as
5 > > LICENSE="${LICENSE:-|| ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )}"
6 > >
7 > > So if a distribution uses "the same license as Perl 5 itself" you can
8 > > just drop the LICENSE from the ebuild (as long no former eclass sets
9 > > its own LICENSE).
10 >
11 > That's definitely not going to work if the 'inherit' comes at the top
12 > of the ebuild, and is severely dodgy if it doesn't...
13
14 What doesn't work?
15 --
16 Regards