Hi, As you should know, GLEP 23 [1] introduced USE flags conditions in LICENSE variable and || operator in addition of licenses groups and ACCEPT_LICENSE variable.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html I want to show an issue in ACCEPT_LICENSE that have to be fixed with a new operator in LICENSE variable. Imagine we have ACCEPT_LICENSE="GPL-3", every ebuilds without GPL-3 in LICENSE variable will be filtered even ebuilds with LICENSE="GPL-2" and a lot of packages are actually GPL-2+, not GPL-2 "strict". That means they should be shown if ACCEPT_LICENSE="GPL-3". It's even worst when we try to use ACCEPT_LICENSE to have a free operating system. Let's suppose 'free' in fsf free and osf free, LGPL-2.1 is free for both but LGPL-2 isn't and we can suppose, most LGPL-2 licensed packages in the tree are LGPL-2+ actually. So, what I propose is to let a license to be suffixed by the + operator. In this case, if a newer license is accepted by ACCEPT_LICENSE, the PM should not filter the package. I think it's not a hard modification and it will only need an amend to GLEP 23 (in addition of implementations in PM's). Thanks, Mounir
