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 1HmrqE-0000uA-Gm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:40:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4CDdxdb007558; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:39:59 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4CDc3cK005290 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:38:03 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (unknown [84.29.252.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D58164DCE for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 15:38:20 +0200 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required? Message-ID: <20070512133820.GA14564@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> References: <200705121242.03449.cryos@gentoo.org> <200705121427.50624.carlo@gentoo.org> <20070512130010.GA14180@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> <200705121513.53760.carlo@gentoo.org> 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: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705121513.53760.carlo@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l4CDdxfY007558 X-Archives-Salt: faad923f-079f-4d0e-9202-2fcb8785cb8c X-Archives-Hash: b92919b837d88a98680c1269df3c782d On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:13:02PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Samstag, 12. Mai 2007, Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: > > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:27:20PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > > No. LICENSE=3D"GPL-2 some-exception" suffices. > > > > No, that means something completely different. It means that you shou= ld > > install the software only if you find both the GPL-2 and the exceptio= n > > acceptable, rather than if you find the combination of the GPL-2 with > > the exception acceptable. >=20 > And that's why it's not different. Such exceptions usually don't stand = for=20 > themselves, but relate to the license they're bound to. Can be matter o= f the=20 > wording, though.=20 Do you need to accept the unmodified GPL-2 for software licensed under the GPL-2 plus exception? No? Then GPL-2 does not belong in LICENSE, unless in a || group. > I consider it quite stupid adding extra licenses for such exceptions. A generic license could be used, which points to the packages for the exact license. --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list