Re: 01/01: gnu: Add perl-inline-c.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Roel Janssen transcribed 509 bytes:
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>> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
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>> > Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>> >> Hi Roel,
>> >>
>> >> address@hidden (Roel Janssen) skribis:
>> >>
>> >>> +    (license (package-license perl))))
>> >>
>> >> Could you use (license perl-license) instead?  It doesn’t make any
>> >> difference in this case but it’s generally “safer” (see (guix
>> >> licenses)).
>
> 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.

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Ricardo

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