Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

["Rémi Cardona" <remi@gentoo.org>]

Le 04/09/2009 20:52, David Leverton a écrit :
> Is that really a problem?

To me, it's not. :)

>  I admit to not being around for the original design
> decisions, but I would assume that the purpose of having LICENSE in ebuilds
> is to tell users what licence the package is under (whether or not it's
> accurate is a different matter), and the purpose of having the licences
> themselves in the tree is so that it's easy for users to look them up and
> decide whether they want to accept the conditions or not.  For that purpose,
> the exact list of credits is irrelevant.

That was just an example to show that unless we go through a precise and 
thorough audit of all the packages we offer, the LICENSE variable is 
_informational_ at best.

Having tools to manipulate those variables is very misleading since 
users will (rightfully) assume that we've done our homework and that 
upstream did too.

I don't intend to stop anyone from creating new tools, but I just want 
us all to realize the limits of what is being done here.

Cheers,

Rémi