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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: stuart@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 5 status?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:04:09
Message-Id: 21057.205.241.48.33.1088723030.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 5 status? by Stuart Herbert
1 Stuart Herbert said:
2 > Homepage and license are pieces of data that are specific to individual
3 > ebuilds, rather than to individual packages. We definitely have
4 > packages in the tree today where different versions of the same package
5 > are published under different licenses, and I'd be amazed if there
6 > aren't packages that have different homepages for different versions.
7 >
8 > Any tools or websites that expect a package to only have one license and
9 > one homepage are working on an incorrect assumption, and are publishing
10 > inaccurate or misleading information.
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12 You don't seem to be considering the possibility of restrictive version
13 tags for information.
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