On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:23 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:19 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:17:30 -0600 "Stephen John Smoogen" smooge@gmail.com wrote:
I find the reading of && || to be a little hard. Wouldnt it be better to use the or as in the Perl license way? or was there a legal reason for not to.. beyond that I think the two are good.Parenthesis I do not have a problem with.
Machine parsing? '||' and '&&' is easier to catch/parse than 'or' and 'and' perhaps? Just guessing.
This is precisely why.
Looks entirely over the top to me. Can we make packaging any harder ? I'm all for somewhat accurate license tags, but if the goal is to make spec files machine parsable, then why not go to xml straight away ? And what is the purpose of commenting licenses in the file list, apart from making the packagers life miserable ?