From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612222156.55163@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> (raw)
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At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General Public
License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's alright to
license it to "any later version". Linux kernel for instance is licensed
_only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version.
What I propose is to copy licenses/GPL-2 to license/GPL-2+ and adding the
following notes at the start of the two files:
GPL-2:
Note: this license states that the software is licensed under GNU General
Public License version 2, and you might not be able to consider it licensed
under any later version.
GPL-2+:
Note: this license explicitly allows licensing under GNU General Public
License version 2 or, at your option, any later version.
Comments, ideas, proposals?
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...
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next reply other threads:[~2006-12-22 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-22 20:56 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [this message]
2006-12-22 21:53 ` [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Yuri Vasilevski
2006-12-22 22:06 ` Alec Warner
2006-12-22 22:15 ` Yuri Vasilevski
2006-12-22 22:31 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-12-22 22:43 ` Alec Warner
2006-12-22 23:11 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-12-23 8:40 ` Harald van Dijk
2006-12-22 23:17 ` Yuri Vasilevski
2006-12-23 9:27 ` expose
2007-01-03 9:18 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-01-03 21:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-04 9:17 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-01-06 17:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-06 17:55 ` Steve Long
2007-01-04 10:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kevin F. Quinn
2007-01-04 11:00 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-01-04 13:10 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2007-01-04 17:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-22 23:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Stefan Schweizer
2006-12-24 18:05 ` [gentoo-dev] " Stephen Bennett
2007-01-04 0:19 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2007-01-28 0:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
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