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From: Petter <petter@mykolab.ch>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:57:52 +0200
Subject: gnu: Avoid circular dependencies by Perl license.
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* guix/licenses.scm (perl-license): New variable.
* gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm: Change (package-license perl) to perl-license.
* gnu/packages/compression.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/databases.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/gd.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/language.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/libevent.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/mail.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/messaging.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/ncurses.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/networking.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/photo.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/tcl.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/tex.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/tls.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/web.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/wm.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/xml.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/xorg.scm: Same.
* gnu/packages/zip.scm: Same.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
---
 guix/licenses.scm | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'guix/licenses.scm')

diff --git a/guix/licenses.scm b/guix/licenses.scm
index c6945288fe..a95f89a7bf 100644
--- a/guix/licenses.scm
+++ b/guix/licenses.scm
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Rene Saavedra <rennes@openmailbox.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Petter <petter@mykolab.ch>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@
             ncsa
             nmap
             openldap2.8 openssl
+            perl-license
             psfl public-domain
             qpl
             repoze
@@ -407,6 +409,12 @@ at URI, which may be a file:// URI pointing the package's tree."
            "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list#newOpenLDAP"))
               ;; lists OpenLDAPv2.7, which is virtually identical
 
+(define perl-license
+  ;; 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.
+  gpl1+)
+
 (define psfl
   (license "Python Software Foundation License"
            "http://docs.python.org/license.html"
-- 
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