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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:01:25
Message-Id: 20061026190259.49ef4d9f@sheridan.genone.homeip.net
1 Ok, as there is currently a lot of work going on for GLEP 23
2 (licese based visibility filtering aka ACCEPT_LICENSE) the topic of
3 license groups came up, in particular the way how they should be
4 (technically) defined.
5
6 The simplest way is a line based format
7 <groupname> <license1> ... <licenseN>
8 however this doesn't allow for any addition of metadata (for example
9 descriptions to explain the purpose of a group), these (if wanted) would
10 have to be defined in another file. The alternative would be to use a
11 more complex file format, for example so called ini-style
12
13 [groupname]
14 licenses=license1 license2 ... licenseN
15 description=Sample license group
16 constains_stupid_licenses=1
17
18 So what do you prefer?
19
20 Marius
21
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>