From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:00:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701041201.13127.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070104114211.0eaabd44@c1358217.kevquinn.com>
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On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:42, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:18:51 +0100
>
> Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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."
>
> This is effectively what Diego was proposing with the 'GPL-2+' name.
Except that a GPL-RENEW tag would be transparent over newer GPL releases too.
Upstreams will likely release under gpl-3 and newer. My solution would handle
it transparently.
Paul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-22 20:56 [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-12-22 21:53 ` 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 [this message]
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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