On 11/23/03  Jason Stubbs wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've done a small patch which checks for licenses but have come across
> an issue while testing. Take the following:
> 
> xfree contains LICENSE="X11 MSttfEULA"
> qt contains LICENSE="QPL-1.0 | GPL-2"
> 
> What other lexical forms are there? The ebuild howto doesn't even
> mention the above construct. Will I find something like "(LIC1 LIC2) |
> LIC3"?
> 
> Most importantly, though, does portage already contain the code to
> parse these somewhere?

So before we can go ahead and implement this the following points have
to be cleared:
- formal syntax and semantic of the LICENSE variable
- What should be the default for ACCEPT_LICENSES, this is probably a
point for the managers meeting
- How should portage handle packages with unaccepted licenses

Marius

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