From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ranged licenses
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:02:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128230225.2b271b49@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711282355.01184.bangert@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:54:57 +0100
Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org> wrote:
> there is also the legal argument. it's better to state explicitly
> which versions apply and not have to cleanup the mess, when somebody
> decides to release GPL-2.5.
That's an argument strongly in favour of ranged specs. A huge number of
packages are licensed under "GPL 2 or later", and currently most ebuilds
incorrectly use LICENSE="GPL-2" for these. Even changing these to
LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2 GPL-3 )" just shifts the problem around a bit. With
CRAN "GPL 2 or later" translates to "GPL (>= 2)", which is a much more
accurate description of a package's license.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-24 15:00 [gentoo-dev] Ranged licenses Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-28 19:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-11-28 19:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-28 22:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Thilo Bangert
2007-11-28 23:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-11-29 2:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2007-11-29 2:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Robin H. Johnson
2007-11-29 2:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-29 2:58 ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-11-29 3:04 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-30 10:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
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