From: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:43:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <458C5F9E.1010307@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612222331.17989@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Friday 22 December 2006 22:53, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
>> While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special
>> case of multiple licensing) we do:
>>
>> LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3"
>>
>> when it becomes available?
> There is one problem at least for this: to apply this method you'd have to
> change _all_ the ebuilds in the tree referring to GPL-2 or later when GPL-3
> is published, while with GPL-2+ we can start gradually now.
>
> Also it would be more useful for users to know what can be licensed in 2+ and
> what requires 2 strictly.
>
GPL-2+ would need to be a license GROUP however.
Say I approve only GPL-3 packages (cause' I hate patents, and I dislike
having a working system too!). This would encompass anything strictly
GPL-3 and also anything GPL-2+ (which would then be under 3 at my option
in this case).
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-22 20:56 [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-12-22 21:53 ` Yuri Vasilevski
2006-12-22 22:06 ` Alec Warner
2006-12-22 22:15 ` Yuri Vasilevski
2006-12-22 22:31 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-12-22 22:43 ` Alec Warner [this message]
2006-12-22 23:11 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-12-23 8:40 ` Harald van Dijk
2006-12-22 23:17 ` Yuri Vasilevski
2006-12-23 9:27 ` expose
2007-01-03 9:18 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-01-03 21:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-04 9:17 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-01-06 17:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-06 17:55 ` Steve Long
2007-01-04 10:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kevin F. Quinn
2007-01-04 11:00 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-01-04 13:10 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2007-01-04 17:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-12-22 23:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Stefan Schweizer
2006-12-24 18:05 ` [gentoo-dev] " Stephen Bennett
2007-01-04 0:19 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2007-01-28 0:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
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