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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:58:50
Message-Id: 4AA244AF.2060403@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >>> I propose support for license groups in ebuilds then, I guess.
4 >
5 >> That seems like a reasonable solution. So, an ebuild can do
6 >> something like LICENSE="@GPL-2+" and that will expand to whatever
7 >> the definition of the GPL-2+ license group happens to be.
8 >
9 > So "@GPL-2+" would (currently) expand to "GPL-2 GPL-3". But that would
10 > be wrong, since what you want is "|| ( GPL-2 GPL-3 )".
11
12 Right, so naturally, license groups inside LICENSE should expand to
13 || ( licenses in group ).
14
15 --
16 Thanks,
17 Zac