Re: [gentoo-dev] LICENSE=???

[William McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org>]

Ryan Shaw wrote:
> What should the LICENSE variable be set to when
> creating an ebuild for software with a weird or
> unknown license?

That depends, LICENCSE="Foo" where "Foo" is a filename in 
/usr/portage/licenses/ . Foo should match the file name exactly.

There is a special case called "as-is" please read it for details on it.

If the licenses is truly unique then we need to add another one to the 
directory.

If you need logic for more than one license use | for or logic and ( and 
) for grouping. And logic is implied if no other operator is used. eg:

LICENSE="GPL-2 | ( LGPL-2.1 Foo )"

The above would mean, The pacakges requires the user agreee to the GPL 
v2 licenser OR both of the LGPL v2.1 and Foo licenses.

Sandy McArthur