Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?

[Bryan Østergaard]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:27:43PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> No. LICENSE="GPL-2 some-exception" suffices. That said, we suck at our
> licensing information badly. E.g. every single ebuild linking against OpenSSL
> has (or at least needs to have) a linking exeption. We don't flag this
> anywhere. More important, what's with optional dependencies!? We don't
> support
>
> LICENSE="GPL-2 ssl? ( openssl-exception)"
>
> style LICENSE content at all iirc. Similar for all the patent-encumbered
> multimedia libs, which can't be distributed as binaries, but are not blocked
> by some bindist feature flag or so.
>
License follows the same syntax as DEPEND. See
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html#license.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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