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From: Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:59:27
Message-Id: 200311231059.24019.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 07:43, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Saturday 22 November 2003 11:56, Jason Stubbs wrote:
3 > > xfree contains LICENSE="X11 MSttfEULA"
4 > > qt contains LICENSE="QPL-1.0 | GPL-2"
5 > >
6 > > What other lexical forms are there? The ebuild howto doesn't even mention
7 > > the above construct. Will I find something like "(LIC1 LIC2) | LIC3"?
8 >
9 > there has been no real position on how to declare multiple licenses ...
10 > thus devs have just done whatever ...
11 > some may say | means one thing, some may say it means another, the truth
12 > is, it has never officially been declared thus it really means nothing when
13 > looking at the portage tree as a whole
14
15 Created new bug #34146
16
17 > > Most importantly, though, does portage already contain the code to parse
18 > > these somewhere?
19 >
20 > no
21 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367
22
23 Submitted patch and made it depend on 34146
24
25 Jason
26
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Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>