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The QA team has approved a new policy [1], effective immediately: |
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| LICENSE must not contain variables |
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| PG: 0106 |
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| Source: QA |
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| Reported: no |
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| The LICENSE variable in an ebuild must specify all the license names |
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| verbatim, without referring to any variables. The only exception is |
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| (implicit or explicit) use of LICENSE itself, i.e. appending is allowed. |
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| Rationale: since license names do not contain dynamic parts (such as |
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| package versions), using variables there has little advantage. On the |
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| other hand, variables reduce the usefulness of plain tools such as grep. |
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Thise policy change affects only 5 ebuilds in the Gentoo repository. |
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Bug 840565 [2] will be used as a tracker. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/ebuild-format.html#pg0106 |
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[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/840565 |
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