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Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c. |
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Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:37:05 +0200 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> Can you tell me why it is safer to say perl-license instead of
>> package-license perl?
>
> Following Ludo’s reference to “(guix licenses)” we can see this comment:
>
> ;; The license of Perl, GPLv1+ or Artistic (we ignore the latter here).
> ;; We define this alias to avoid circular dependencies introduced by the use
> ;; of the '(package-license perl)' idiom.
Exactly. The problem arose when we started writing (package-license
perl) in modules other than perl.scm but that were in a cycle with
perl.scm.
Ludo’.