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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:43:35
Message-Id: 200311221743.44230.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] License Checking by Jason Stubbs
1 On Saturday 22 November 2003 11:56, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > xfree contains LICENSE="X11 MSttfEULA"
3 > qt contains LICENSE="QPL-1.0 | GPL-2"
4 >
5 > What other lexical forms are there? The ebuild howto doesn't even mention
6 > the above construct. Will I find something like "(LIC1 LIC2) | LIC3"?
7
8 there has been no real position on how to declare multiple licenses ... thus
9 devs have just done whatever ...
10 some may say | means one thing, some may say it means another, the truth is,
11 it has never officially been declared thus it really means nothing when
12 looking at the portage tree as a whole
13
14 > Most importantly, though, does portage already contain the code to parse
15 > these somewhere?
16
17 no
18 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17367
19 -mike
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