Bug 287192

Summary:	Support for license groups in ebuilds
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Sebastian Pipping <sping>
Component:	PMS/EAPI	Assignee:	PMS/EAPI <pms>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	esigra, licenses, volkmar
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg35792.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	174380

Description Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2009-10-01 01:59:29 UTC

Quoting Zac's summary:
"That seems like a reasonable solution. So, an ebuild can do
something like LICENSE="@GPL-2+" and that will expand to whatever
the definition of the GPL-2+ license group happens to be. When a new
version of GPL license comes out, we simple add it to that group,
and none of the corresponding ebuilds have to be updated."

See URL above for related message and thread.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-08-12 15:14:05 UTC

Alternative solution:
<http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_aa67cea29aa3315a96fb2fe12a56eb78.xml>

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-01-03 13:28:04 UTC

I believe that this is obsolete, per the 20120911 council decision.