[gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses

2007-11-30 Thread Steve Long
Christian Faulhammer wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is this something worth pinching for a future EAPI? If we go with the postfix [] form for ranged deps, it'd translate into: LICENSE==GPL-2 (or equivalently, LICENSE=GPL[=2]) LICENSE=|| ( GPL[=2] BSD ) (or equivalently,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses

2007-11-28 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is this something worth pinching for a future EAPI? If we go with the postfix [] form for ranged deps, it'd translate into: LICENSE==GPL-2 (or equivalently, LICENSE=GPL[=2]) LICENSE=|| ( GPL[=2] BSD ) (or equivalently, =GPL-2) LICENSE=|| (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses

2007-11-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:06:46 +0100 Christian Faulhammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that would need to be decided: LICENSE=GPL-2 Would that require an = prefix? To simplify things, we could say that *only* the postfix [] form counts for licenses... To have backwards

[gentoo-dev] Re: Ranged licenses

2007-11-28 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:54:57 +0100 Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is also the legal argument. it's better to state explicitly which versions apply and not have to cleanup the mess, when somebody decides to release GPL-2.5. That's an argument strongly in