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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:11:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128191148.143603fb@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071128200646.5573164b@gentoo.org>

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:06:46 +0100
Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > One thing that would need to be decided:
> > 
> >     LICENSE="GPL-2"
> > 
> > Would that require an = prefix? To simplify things, we could say
> > that *only* the postfix [] form counts for licenses...
> 
>  To have backwards compatability...yes.

Backwards compatibility isn't necessary over an EAPI bump. The question
is whether it's sufficiently useful that having inconsistent parsing
rules for dep specs and license specs is acceptable.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-24 15:00 [gentoo-dev] Ranged licenses Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-28 19:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-11-28 19:11   ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-11-28 22:54     ` [gentoo-dev] " Thilo Bangert
2007-11-28 23:02       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-29  2:19         ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2007-11-29  2:40         ` [gentoo-dev] " Robin H. Johnson
2007-11-29  2:48           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-29  2:58             ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-11-29  3:04               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-30 10:04   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long

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