The QA team has approved a new policy [1], effective immediately: | LICENSE must not contain variables | | PG: 0106 | Source: QA | Reported: no | | The LICENSE variable in an ebuild must specify all the license names | verbatim, without referring to any variables. The only exception is | (implicit or explicit) use of LICENSE itself, i.e. appending is allowed. | | Rationale: since license names do not contain dynamic parts (such as | package versions), using variables there has little advantage. On the | other hand, variables reduce the usefulness of plain tools such as grep.
Thise policy change affects only 5 ebuilds in the Gentoo repository. Bug 840565 [2] will be used as a tracker. Ulrich [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/ebuild-format.html#pg0106 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/840565
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