From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-dev+bounces-24906-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1I94Aq-0000lq-T3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:18:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6CJH41W027958; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:17:04 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6CJF15w025443 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:15:01 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.138] (c-66-30-3-184.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.30.3.184]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7645165633 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. From: Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070712200736.2a79eaff@snowflake> References: <4690C4B8.4000407@gentoo.org> <1184264665.8615.4.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20070712193146.694917f6@snowflake> <200707121500.14681.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070712200736.2a79eaff@snowflake> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-q/7u/NfSp7aeX3+mLkoO" Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:14:38 -0400 Message-Id: <1184267678.26227.9.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 X-Archives-Salt: e2654d22-3d41-463f-973d-681e406de4f6 X-Archives-Hash: fe651c93b23f8540d9f1624d8c688f93 --=-q/7u/NfSp7aeX3+mLkoO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:07 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Unless there are third party repositories shipping their own > from-scratch ebuilds... In which case, afaics there's nothing to stop > *them* from going GPL-3 if they think there's a reason to do so. Unless > the Foundation somehow claims that all ebuilds, even those > from-scratch, are derived works? What's the case here? Third-party ebuilds being contributed into the tree via bugzilla and other means? Or third-party ebuilds from joe shmoe off www.joeshmoesebuilds.com? The second case is meaningless to Gentoo. The first case needs to be considered. The question there, I suppose, is: do we *require* contributors to license ebuilds as GPL-2? And if that is the case, that's what stops them. It would be an interesting question, though, to prove that someone wrote a from-scratch ebuild via looking only at the documentation, and without basing any parts off of already existing ebuilds in the tree, no? Thanks, Seemant --=-q/7u/NfSp7aeX3+mLkoO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGln2eiUTIoXwgiI0RAkwhAJ0bCzNVsIxLpEV6m6pGBpyyT/q8mACgyFTR uxUx2qpx7zQmDabXWRZxhmI= =wI77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-q/7u/NfSp7aeX3+mLkoO-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list