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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:22:11
Message-Id: 4A9C4F08.8040103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) by Mounir Lamouri
1 Le 01/09/2009 00:12, Mounir Lamouri a écrit :
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > As you should know, GLEP 23 [1] introduced USE flags conditions in
5 > LICENSE variable and || operator in addition of licenses groups and
6 > ACCEPT_LICENSE variable.
7 >
8 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html
9
10 /me still thinks LICENSE should be informational _at_best_. Users who
11 rely on LICENSE to build an FSF-approved system will simply be mislead.
12
13 If we want to support this sort of things properly, we should have a
14 treewide license audit. Anything short of that will just be a disservice
15 to our users.
16
17 Cheers,
18
19 Rémi

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@g.o>