Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> skribis: > Nils Gillmann <[email protected]> writes:
[...] >> 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. Exactly. The problem arose when we started writing (package-license perl) in modules other than perl.scm but that were in a cycle with perl.scm. Ludo’.
