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 1I7w7Y-0004Uz-TY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:29:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l69GSxa2015594; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:28:59 GMT Received: from siemen.orkz.net (atwork-180.r-212.178.119.atwork.nl [212.178.119.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l69GR90S013392 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:27:10 GMT Received: (qmail 52018 invoked by uid 98); 9 Jul 2007 16:26:57 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.220 by siemen.orkz.net (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.4/1763. spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.220):. Processed in 0.319944 secs); 09 Jul 2007 16:26:57 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jer@gentoo.org via siemen.orkz.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.220):. Processed in 0.319944 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO epia.jer-c2.orkz.net) (192.168.1.220) by siemen.orkz.net with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 9 Jul 2007 16:26:56 -0000 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:27:14 +0200 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Message-ID: <20070709182714.26c76737@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1183832495.20203.11.camel@SOLACE> <468FDCFE.1060404@gentoo.org> <4690C4B8.4000407@gentoo.org> <200707081350.27220.philantrop@gentoo.org> <1183899969.6634.1.camel@localhost> <20070708164657.4edd8378@localhost> <1183916932.6634.6.camel@localhost> <469129CF.9040301@thefreemanclan.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 999d4809-290e-4fc6-8ce8-c587f3929f05 X-Archives-Hash: 1a22362c2fdcac6bdc022cf5982fe84e On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:31:23 +0100 Steve Long wrote: > IMO though, Gentoo is effectively already under GPL3 in that, apart > from portage and python, all the core software is GNU. It'd be pretty > difficult for instance, to run any ebuild without BASH. It's not a matter of opinion whether Gentoo (sys-apps/portage, the ebuilds and so on) are GPL -2 or -3. Running your own copyrighted works on Gentoo does not "effectively" mean that your works are suddenly held to the same license as Gentoo. There's a complicated discussion about derived works that I won't go into here, but Gentoo, the Linux distribution, is distributed under many licenses, whereas Gentoo the package management system / Portage tree is distributed under one license -- GPL-2. Whether all the system utils or the kernel are GPL-3 is of no consequence to the package manager or the Portage tree. Lastly, appreciating that (most) ebuilds require bash to be interpreted does *not* make them derivative works of bash in accepted readings of international copyright law. Therefore, the license of bash be(com)ing GPL-3 does not preclude ebuilds being (and remaining) GPL-2. Kind regards, JeR -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list