/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/license_groups

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/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/license_groups contains groups of licenses that may be specified in the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable (see make.conf(5)). Refer to GLEP 23 for further information.

Format

  • Comments begin with # (no inline comments).
  • One group name, followed by list of licenses and nested groups.
  • Nested groups are prefixed with the @ symbol.

Examples

The FSF-APPROVED group includes the entire GPL-COMPATIBLE group and more:

FILE /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/license_groupslicense_groups example 1
FSF-APPROVED @GPL-COMPATIBLE Apache-1.1 BSD-4 MPL-1.0 MPL-1.1

The GPL-COMPATIBLE group includes all licenses compatible with the GNU GPL:

FILE /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/license_groupslicense_groups example 2
GPL-COMPATIBLE Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 GPL-2 GPL-3 LGPL-2.1 LGPL-3 X11 ZLIB

See also

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