From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjEl1-0006FX-0b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:01:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E62DE0B29; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEE3E0B29 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.199] (rke75-4-82-234-111-163.fbx.proxad.net [82.234.111.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CAF2648BF for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4AA030C0.5010103@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:10:24 +0200 From: Mounir Lamouri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090823) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) References: <4A9C4AD6.9080505@gentoo.org> <4A9C853D.8050003@hartwork.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3dbfc280-cc1a-4184-ac8d-12d5dd16f271 X-Archives-Hash: 6fa195ce50c3ad5c8c6fbace3f2f901b Duncan wrote: > Sebastian Pipping posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:49 +0200 as excerpted: > > >> However I do notice that "GPL-2+" could make things easier. Why not >> introduce a license group for it like @GPL-2+ or so, instead? That would >> be transparent and use existing means. >> > > I've always thought Gentoo needed "plus" versions of the versioned > licenses, anyway. GPL-2, GPL-2+, GPL-3, and GPL-3+, should all be > different licenses, because really, they are. > AFAIK, GPL-2 and GPL-2+ are not different, may you tell me more about that ? Thanks, Mounir