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 ) id 1GxrVd-0005Gs-5F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:00:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBMKxBIJ003781; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:59:11 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBMKv1Ll024226 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:57:01 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so4299813wxd for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:57:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:x-face:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:sender; b=TmFxAW6Ga3vydUXn66ZtbodC2+RSHs0g5+fopk4TVnfyYOsIiOyHUIk9V4WN7fMoIhNW0JZ+ONf4wNwYE9u3HlmcvLmQHPdKwC/K36VYm8+B3m5t2PNy4EYgr6o2zzt00JawMTLFTV/mvx4s1WCfCpxl9Zvdit+J4XCT7ouYavQ= Received: by 10.90.56.14 with SMTP id e14mr9537972aga.1166821020424; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:57:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org ( [151.56.70.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 32sm9916619agc.2006.12.22.12.56.59; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:57:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?iso-8859-1?q?Petten=F2?=" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 X-Face: +=-v@W}H`=.Bn2t&97Un7{[.c0aP0"8)JI?7Z?E>l>ZNY|,=?utf-8?q?mL=5C3bs=0A=09xW=23jRz=7CVa=5C?=@NIS3-'W[F.^YLqK=rS:D*Ke`Y5giI@$(xIBQ<0i740;wuI{lYd>>=?utf-8?q?eFVDuAr=0A=09=3Br=5B*=7E/zd=604dEI?= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1712394.BAEQfLnH5F"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612222156.55163@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Sender: "=?UTF-8?Q?Diego=20\"Flameeyes\"=20Petten=C3=B2?=" X-Archives-Salt: 6657ccf9-10a0-4ead-8c50-162bdce8cc73 X-Archives-Hash: d65fd332a985cf5ebdd4ee1b2b88ad2b --nextPart1712394.BAEQfLnH5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General Publi= c=20 License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's alright to=20 license it to "any later version". Linux kernel for instance is licensed=20 _only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version. What I propose is to copy licenses/GPL-2 to license/GPL-2+ and adding the=20 following notes at the start of the two files: GPL-2: Note: this license states that the software is licensed under GNU General=20 Public License version 2, and you might not be able to consider it licensed= =20 under any later version. GPL-2+: Note: this license explicitly allows licensing under GNU General Public=20 License version 2 or, at your option, any later version. Comments, ideas, proposals? =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=F2 - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ... --nextPart1712394.BAEQfLnH5F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFjEaXe2h1+2mHVWMRAutCAJ4wBELE0R/2GvtDf+jeZGFZn/GM7wCggzqn 9bvL4pxAPygn3irek+UjCmQ= =6JWA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1712394.BAEQfLnH5F-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list