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From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:01:32
Message-Id: 4AC40D79.6030909@hartwork.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
2 >> I propose support for license groups in ebuilds then, I guess.
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4 > That seems like a reasonable solution. So, an ebuild can do
5 > something like LICENSE="@GPL-2+" and that will expand to whatever
6 > the definition of the GPL-2+ license group happens to be. When a new
7 > version of GPL license comes out, we simple add it to that group,
8 > and none of the corresponding ebuilds have to be updated.
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10 I made a bug from that so it doesn't get lost.
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12 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287192
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16 Sebastian

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