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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:37:16
Message-Id: 20061026175001.GA22557@feynman.corp.halliburton.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote: [Thu Oct 26 2006, 12:02:59PM CDT]
2 > Ok, as there is currently a lot of work going on for GLEP 23
3 > (licese based visibility filtering aka ACCEPT_LICENSE) the topic of
4 > license groups came up, in particular the way how they should be
5 > (technically) defined.
6 >
7 > The simplest way is a line based format
8 > <groupname> <license1> ... <licenseN>
9
10 At the risk of reopening a large can of worms, can somebody explain to
11 me why the license groups idea won't run into the same conceptual issues
12 that derailed GLEP 29 (USE groups)? Am I missing something obvious?
13
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>