287192 – Support for license groups in ebuilds

Bug 287192 - Support for license groups in ebuilds

Summary: Support for license groups in ebuilds

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	PMS/EAPI (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	PMS/EAPI

URL:	http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-de...
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Blocks:	future-eapi
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Reported:	2009-10-01 01:59 UTC by Sebastian Pipping
Modified:	2013-01-03 22:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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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."

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I believe that this is obsolete, per the 20120911 council decision.