Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

[Ricardo Loureiro <rjlouro@rjlouro.org>]

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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:31:09 -0700
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> Of course, the other possibility, if the permissiveness of BSD is
> desired,
> would be a dual-license BSD/GPL.  That clears up any possible
> conflicts
> directly and immediately.  OTOH, with portage itself already GPL2
> licensed, I'm not sure I see much point in BSD licensing any portage
> dependent new code, in any case, since it's dependent on GPL2 code
> anyway.
> Still, the dual license certainly can't harm, and would likely be my
> choice if I wanted the BSD permissiveness to apply to my code,
> under the
> circumstances.  (FWIW, I prefer GPL, so there's no question that's
> how I'd
> license it if it were me, but it's not, so that doesn't count.)
> 

BSD licence allows any fork to be created with any other licence, so
a BSD project can have a GPL fork. I didn't thought about changing
Portage itself simply because I don't know if the changes are welcome
to Gentoo itself, probably more a Gentoo server project. But if that
is a possibility I have no problems with GPL.


Ricardo Loureiro
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