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 1H2QPA-0007lw-QO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:05:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l04B45eG015495; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 11:04:05 GMT Received: from mx.ATComputing.nl (mx.ATComputing.nl [195.108.229.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l04B1LnV012193 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 11:01:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.atcomputing.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mx.ATComputing.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8200CE831 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:01:21 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: atcmpg.ATComputing.nl: paul set sender to pauldv@gentoo.org using -f From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:00:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200612222156.55163@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200701031018.58352.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20070104114211.0eaabd44@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <20070104114211.0eaabd44@c1358217.kevquinn.com> 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="nextPart1331387.TMJZ621GcN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701041201.13127.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by AT Computing Virus Scanner X-Archives-Salt: 833d3c9c-1ddc-4eab-a972-b85c87b75d42 X-Archives-Hash: d4edb647cc16469cbb7bbeb1c84e2707 --nextPart1331387.TMJZ621GcN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:42, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:18:51 +0100 > > Paul de Vrieze 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 to= o.=20 Upstreams will likely release under gpl-3 and newer. My solution would hand= le=20 it transparently. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart1331387.TMJZ621GcN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (SunOS) iD8DBQBFnN55bKx5DBjWFdsRAqRAAJ0fgJHgwKkirFvhAiLpAw1exkDCXACdHOXg C2UrAyOPWRq+pLje7Wb00w4= =BHdk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1331387.TMJZ621GcN-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list