[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 )" (

[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

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

[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") > LI