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 1HmrT0-0003cZ-L3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:16:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4CDFwP4002039; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:15:58 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 l4CDE3PS032186 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:14:03 GMT Received: from iglu.bnet.local (d039177.adsl.hansenet.de [80.171.39.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9616464AF5 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:14:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Carsten Lohrke To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required? Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 15:13:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705121242.03449.cryos@gentoo.org> <200705121427.50624.carlo@gentoo.org> <20070512130010.GA14180@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070512130010.GA14180@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> 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="nextPart1688319.BIhOHKvqSs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705121513.53760.carlo@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 0d0786e9-6664-4e9d-83d7-599ca43f2269 X-Archives-Hash: b80bcd2a069a8a758cc0e32e3941b66d --nextPart1688319.BIhOHKvqSs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 should > install the software only if you find both the GPL-2 and the exception > acceptable, rather than if you find the combination of the GPL-2 with > the exception acceptable. 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 of th= e=20 wording, though.=20 I consider it quite stupid adding extra licenses for such exceptions. Carsten --nextPart1688319.BIhOHKvqSs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGRb2RVwbzmvGLSW8RAoMWAJ97t4849miboWCPtRvJcs5mjmPqoACfSsot M3XuZZ1mx8L1WDct+v3AegE= =E+4I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1688319.BIhOHKvqSs-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list