1 |
>>>>> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009, Mounir Lamouri wrote: |
2 |
|
3 |
> I suppose adding group license support in ebuilds will fix the problem |
4 |
> too. But I see a few disadvantages like: |
5 |
> - new behavior for @ operator: it will not only expand a group but also |
6 |
> adding a || operator (only for LICENSE) |
7 |
> - devs will have to maintain new groups |
8 |
> - group support in LICENSE has no other need that managing versioned |
9 |
> licenses |
10 |
|
11 |
IMHO the main disadvantage is that ebuilds would have to be converted |
12 |
to EAPI-4 for this, which is quite an effort for a very small |
13 |
improvement. And I guess that there are quite a few packages currently |
14 |
labelled as GPL-2 that are really "GPL 2 or later". |
15 |
|
16 |
> But if everybody think groups are better, that will be fine. |
17 |
|
18 |
I would prefer a pragmatic solution, like adding new licence files |
19 |
as suggested in [1]. |
20 |
|
21 |
Ulrich |
22 |
|
23 |
[1] <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c004fd342c57062d71455109fa52ac0.xml> |