Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5_pre Update

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:35:28PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote:

> > #if a package offers multiple licensing options
> > LICENSE="gpl artistic"
> >
>
> If I want to specify my own home-made license, which nobody knows the name of, could
> I put a uri here? Something like
>
> LICENSE="gpl"
>
> would be valid because it's already known, but for unknown licenses:
>
> LICENSE="URI:someaddress"
>
> which could be parsed by whatever front end is used to provide the details of the
> license? Just a thought,

Yes, that could work.  Just put the URI in there verbatim if necessary.

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