code.dlang.org now supports categories and search - license information now required

ilya-stromberg ilya-stromberg-2009 at yandex.ru
Thu Oct 17 05:13:52 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 17 October 2013 at 12:06:49 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> If you have per-file differences, then this in fact means that 
> both licenses need to be obeyed when using the package. If 
> those licenses are incompatible, that's a problem of the 
> package combining them - it's basically unusable then. But 
> going a per-file way is by-far too detailed. It's hard enough 
> to assure proper per-package licensing and keeping license 
> comments up to date, but this will IMO just result in chaos.
>
> Also, while GPL 2 and 3 may not be compatible, there are other 
> licenses which are compatible, but one is not a superset of the 
> other.

OK, understand your position. May be just provide special syntax 
for this cases, for example:
"license": [{"BSL-1.0", "MIT"}]


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