From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J44pP-0002Vk-0B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:31:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBH1UYb9011620; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:30:34 GMT Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com (aerie.halcy0n.com [65.98.89.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBH1SVoT009119; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:28:32 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95277E3F3; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:28:31 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at halcy0n.com Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (halcy0n.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zqW9Yh8G8Yks; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:28:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F8107E3F4; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:28:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:28:26 -0500 From: Mark Loeser To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-dev-announce@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] New-style virtuals LICENSE variable Message-ID: <20071217012826.GB9150@aerie.halcy0n.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: dc3cfbe5-c06c-4680-a588-62128f8433fe X-Archives-Hash: 9ec69753a11ed6117c7f50eb19fc179b --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Sorry for the spam g-dev, I forgot to send this to dev-announce as well). ----- Forwarded message from Mark Loeser ----- > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:03:39 -0500 > From: Mark Loeser > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-dev] New-style virtuals LICENSE variable > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) >=20 > Just to bring to a wider audience the discussion that we had on bug > #140180 [1]. >=20 > While documenting new-style virtuals for devmanual we began to discuss > what the LICENSE variable for the virtual ebuilds should contain. For > the reasons listed on the bug, we came to a conclusion that the LICENSE > variable should be empty for these ebuilds. >=20 > A brief list of the reasons: >=20 > * the ebuild doesn't really install anything > * the ebuild itself is already licensed under GPLv2 as is every > other ebuild in the tree > * ACCEPT_LICENSE accepts an empty LICENSE, so the virtual is > automatically accepted > * if the above were not true, we would have the fun maintainence > nightmare of having to list every license that could satisfy the > virtual in the LICENSE variable >=20 > So long as everyone understands this, I'll go ahead and commit the new > documentation to devmanual and ask zmedico to commit the repoman change > to make sure LICENSE=3D"" in the virtual category. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 >=20 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D140180 > --=20 > Mark Loeser > email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org > web - http://www.halcy0n.com ----- End forwarded message ----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZdC6CRZPokWLroQRAp9sAJ9ToqvHs3AAnv4deWdMMXNffa+tWQCgnBmp Cxev2QjzIGcOIJqM2TSZfYI= =RzSm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list