Nils Gillmann <[email protected]> writes: > Roel Janssen transcribed 509 bytes: >> >> Roel Janssen <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: >> > >> >> Hi Roel, >> >> >> >> [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?
Following Ludo’s reference to “(guix licenses)” we can see this comment: ;; The license of Perl, GPLv1+ or Artistic (we ignore the latter here). ;; We define this alias to avoid circular dependencies introduced by the use ;; of the '(package-license perl)' idiom. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
