Well, I have nothing against using "v", but it is not really human-readable when the license name is a word, thus it's less beautiful. And using slashes makes the parsing less straightforward.
Le 9 janv. 2010 à 20:30, Joshua Root a écrit : > On 2010-1-10 06:14 , nox wrote: >> I see a lot of ports with license options like "GPLv2/LGPLv2". The "v" and >> "/" seem ugly to me, especially with licenses like Apache, where we end up >> with "Apachev2". Shouldn't we write something more beautiful like: >> >> license LGPL-2 Apache-2 MIT BSD DWTFYWL-42 > > Whether that is more beautiful is no doubt subjective. :-) > > I think the important thing is to make it easily machine-readable so > that an automated binary-building system can know which ports we are > allowed to distribute in binary form, while keeping it human readable. > > Note that no structure is currently imposed on the license field. > > - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
