From b912c8cd3e74513bd1854d4ed7be42535617e4b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:38:31 +0000
Subject: Document license_groups.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=14587
---
 man/portage.5 | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
index 50e7e98e..ae5f7f1f 100644
--- a/man/portage.5
+++ b/man/portage.5
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ arch.list
 categories
 info_pkgs
 info_vars
+license_groups
 package.mask
 profiles.desc
 repo_name
@@ -682,8 +683,24 @@ sys\-kernel
 .BR info_pkgs
 A list of all the packages which will be displayed when you run `emerge info`.
 .TP
-.BR info_vars
-A list of all the variables which will be displayed when you run `emerge info`.
+.BR license_groups
+This contains groups of licenses that may be specifed in the
+\fBACCEPT_LICENSE\fR variable (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)).
+
+.I Format:
+.nf
+\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
+\- one group name, followed by list of licenses and nested groups
+\- nested groups are prefixed with the @ symbol
+.fi
+
+.I Example:
+.nf
+# The FSF-APPROVED group includes the entire GPL-COMPATIBLE group and more.
+FSF-APPROVED @GPL-COMPATIBLE Apache-1.1 BSD-4 MPL-1.0 MPL-1.1
+# The GPL-COMPATIBLE group includes all licenses compatible with the GNU GPL.
+GPL-COMPATIBLE Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 GPL-2 GPL-3 LGPL-2.1 LGPL-3 X11 ZLIB
+.fi
 .TP
 .BR package.keywords
 Per\-profile KEYWORDS. Useful for cases in which the effective KEYWORDS of a
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