On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:50:01 -0500 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marius Mauch wrote: [Thu Oct 26 2006, 12:02:59PM CDT] > > Ok, as there is currently a lot of work going on for GLEP 23 > > (licese based visibility filtering aka ACCEPT_LICENSE) the topic of > > license groups came up, in particular the way how they should be > > (technically) defined. > > > > The simplest way is a line based format > > <groupname> <license1> ... <licenseN> > > At the risk of reopening a large can of worms, can somebody explain to > me why the license groups idea won't run into the same conceptual > issues that derailed GLEP 29 (USE groups)? Am I missing something > obvious? Maybe my memory is wrong, but wasn't the problem only that people couldn't agree on one set of semantics for negations and being afraid of confusing users? In that case I don't see a big problem as long as the semantics are clearly defined, as most users will probably stick with just one predefined group (if they use this feature at all) adjusted by a few handpicked licenses. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
