Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:16:43
Message-Id: 20071128191148.143603fb@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses by Christian Faulhammer
1 On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:06:46 +0100
2 Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o> wrote:
3 > > One thing that would need to be decided:
4 > >
5 > > LICENSE="GPL-2"
6 > >
7 > > Would that require an = prefix? To simplify things, we could say
8 > > that *only* the postfix [] form counts for licenses...
9 >
10 > To have backwards compatability...yes.
11
12 Backwards compatibility isn't necessary over an EAPI bump. The question
13 is whether it's sufficiently useful that having inconsistent parsing
14 rules for dep specs and license specs is acceptable.
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Ranged licenses Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>