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Re: License Tag Draft: msg#00103

linux.redhat.fedora.extras.packaging

Subject: Re: License Tag Draft

On 7/26/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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.


Ahh I figured that and/or could be done by computer while humans have
to read the text. I can see the weird questions that will come up over
time.


--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"



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