[gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses

[Christian Faulhammer]

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>:

> Is this something worth pinching for a future EAPI? If we go with the
> postfix [] form for ranged deps, it'd translate into:
>     LICENSE="=GPL-2" (or equivalently, LICENSE="GPL[=2]")
>     LICENSE="|| ( GPL[>=2] BSD )" (or equivalently, ">=GPL-2")
>     LICENSE="|| ( LGPL[>=2&<3] Eclipse )"

 This is hardly readable, in my eyes at least but I am older than 25
now.  I think it is not really necessary (overkill), but I haven't
heard anything from other people yet.
 
> One thing that would need to be decided:
>
>     LICENSE="GPL-2"
>
> Would that require an = prefix? To simplify things, we could say that
> *only* the postfix [] form counts for licenses...

 To have backwards compatability...yes.

V-Li

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