>>>>> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > I suppose adding group license support in ebuilds will fix the problem > too. But I see a few disadvantages like: > - new behavior for @ operator: it will not only expand a group but also > adding a || operator (only for LICENSE) > - devs will have to maintain new groups > - group support in LICENSE has no other need that managing versioned > licenses
IMHO the main disadvantage is that ebuilds would have to be converted to EAPI-4 for this, which is quite an effort for a very small improvement. And I guess that there are quite a few packages currently labelled as GPL-2 that are really "GPL 2 or later". > But if everybody think groups are better, that will be fine. I would prefer a pragmatic solution, like adding new licence files as suggested in [1]. Ulrich [1] <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c004fd342c57062d71455109fa52ac0.xml>
