Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 22 December 2006 22:53, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100
>
> "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't think this is a good solution, as in any case the package is
> licensed under GPL-2, so how about for the packages that only support
> GPL-2 we set:
>
> LICENSE="GPL-2"
>
> While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special
> case of multiple licensing) we do:
>
> LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3"

I know that I'm a bit late on this, but to me the "version 2 or later" is a 
license by itself. Let's call it GPL-RENEW and let the file have contents 
like:
"This package is licensed with the version x or later clause for the GPL."

The LICENSE would then be:
LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-RENEW"

The advantage being that the renew clause is version independent, we don't 
lose information, don't have to mutilate licenses (by adding text). If 
desired it could even be used as LICENSE="|| (GPL-2 GPL-3) GPL-RENEW"

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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