Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 12 July 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:18 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
> > > Or is it `acceptable' for me to put GPLv3 on, say, an ebuild I
> > > wrote from scratch?
> >
> > The point is that we don't feel that you *can* write an ebuild "from
> > scratch" since it will require certain components, which we feel
> > require you to base your ebuild on skel.ebuild instead.
>
> Which feelings are clearly wrong, for anyone with any degree of
> familiarity with ebuilds.

perhaps, but in the larger scheme of things, irrelevant

either Gentoo goes GPL-3 or not at all ... having ebuilds with mixed licenses 
is doomed to failure

unless there is a pressing need for Gentoo to go GPL-3 (and i dont think 
anyone has stated any where it'd matter to Gentoo), there isnt much point 
right now i dont think
-mike

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