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tocic

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Registered: 2023-02-22

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What do multiple licenses in a license array mean?

What do multiple licenses in a license array mean?

license=('A' 'B')

1. either A or B applies, e.g. jsoncpp

2. both A and B apply, since some source files are licensed under A and others — under B, e.g. python-pwntools

3. sources of the package are licensed under A, but there's a third-party source dependency that is licensed under B, e.g. indicators

Or could it mean any of the above or something else? In what situations it's required to specify multiple licenses then?

Also, I think it's worth explaining at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#license, as it was asked before by others.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: What do multiple licenses in a license array mean?

It means you need to look into it further if it matters to you.