License option

[nox]

Well, I have nothing against using "v", but it is not really human-readable when the license name is a word, thus it's less beautiful. And using slashes makes the parsing less straightforward.

Le 9 janv. 2010 à 20:30, Joshua Root a écrit :

> On 2010-1-10 06:14 , nox wrote:
>> I see a lot of ports with license options like "GPLv2/LGPLv2". The "v" and "/" seem ugly to me, especially with licenses like Apache, where we end up with "Apachev2". Shouldn't we write something more beautiful like:
>> 
>> license     LGPL-2 Apache-2 MIT BSD DWTFYWL-42
> 
> Whether that is more beautiful is no doubt subjective. :-)
> 
> I think the important thing is to make it easily machine-readable so
> that an automated binary-building system can know which ports we are
> allowed to distribute in binary form, while keeping it human readable.
> 
> Note that no structure is currently imposed on the license field.
> 
> - Josh