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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