Nils Gillmann <[email protected]> writes:
>> > Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:
>> >
>> >> [email protected] (Roel Janssen) skribis:
>> >>
>> >>> + (license (package-license perl))))
>> >>
>> >> Could you use (license perl-license) instead? It doesn’t make any
>> >> difference in this case but it’s generally “safer” (see (guix
>> >> licenses)).
>
> Can you tell me why it is safer to say perl-license instead of
> package-license perl?
I'm not a laywer, but if a future version of 'perl' were released under
a different license, I strongly doubt that this would retroactively
change the licenses of any earlier works. That's exactly what would
happen in Guix if we write (license (package-license perl)) and then
later change the 'license' field of the 'perl' package.
Mark
