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 1MjF1c-0000OD-B5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:19:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD0E7E0B46; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC24E0B46 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:27:38 +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 A7DB766D23 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4AA034C6.1080908@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:27:34 +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> <4AA030C0.5010103@gentoo.org> <4AA031DE.5050702@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4AA031DE.5050702@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4a55f9c3-c9ea-413c-93ef-8e3f6a7ac344 X-Archives-Hash: ebb476942853120f8dde392db8e796a2 R=C3=A9mi Cardona wrote: > Le 03/09/2009 23:10, Mounir Lamouri a =C3=A9crit : >> 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 ? > > GPL-2+ means "GPL-2 GPL-3 GPL-4 ..." > > Not quite the same thing as just "GPL-2" But the content of the license is the same. That only means you can use a newer one. I mean we do not need a new license file for that. It's up to upstream to write somewhere if it's GPL-2 or GPL-2+, am I right ? -- Mounir