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 1Gxsak-0003Kw-Ag for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:10:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBMM8eBl026620; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:08:40 GMT Received: from spunkymail-a17.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-74.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBMM6anP022060 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:06:36 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.103] (c-68-43-193-90.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.43.193.90]) by spunkymail-a17.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F97749D5 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:06:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <458C56E8.2000108@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:06:32 -0500 From: Alec Warner Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060918) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ References: <200612222156.55163@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20061222155325.0f97c017@dukebook.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061222155325.0f97c017@dukebook.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kBMM8eDe026620 X-Archives-Salt: be4ca6b2-18a2-407e-9b2d-9e6baa812326 X-Archives-Hash: 71f9b8a8b8b7b3acae46a33b91a2d71a Yuri Vasilevski wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2" wrote: >=20 >> At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General >> Public License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's >> alright to license it to "any later version". Linux kernel for >> instance is licensed _only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version. >=20 > I don't think this is a good solution, as in any case the package is > licensed under GPL-2, so how about for the packages that only support > GPL-2 we set: >=20 > LICENSE=3D"GPL-2" >=20 > While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special > case of multiple licensing) we do: >=20 > LICENSE=3D"GPL-2 GPL-3" If you meant: LICENSE=3D" || ( GPL-2 GPL-3 )" then I agree ;) It would be under Either the GPL-2 OR a later version, not both, yes? -Alec Warner --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list