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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: licenses <licenses@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:12:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50df0c8d74f286393362bf5d089706c69f44e63e.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190921224530.GA10927@linux1.home>

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On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 17:45 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 14:26 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:17:53PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > > > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having
> > > > > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's
> > > > > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'.
> > > > 
> > > > This has been discussed before. There is no such license as GPL-2-only.
> > > 
> > > I am with ulm on this one.
> > > We have GPL-2 and GPL-2+ in the tree. The way I read this,
> > > LICENSE="GPL-2" means GPL 2 only and LICENSE="GPL-2+" means GPL-2+.
> > > 
> > 
> > Have you read my original mail?
> 
> Yes, and I just did again, and my position is still the same.
> 

I know what we have now and what it means.  The mail includes long
explanation why this doesn't work.  Repeating what we have now does not
bring any argument to the discussion, except for anger/demotivation
because it feels like you've completely ignored most of the mail
and just reject it on the basis of 'it's not what we have now'.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-22  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-21 16:09 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing Michał Górny
2019-09-21 16:57 ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 23:21   ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 23:46     ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-22  0:03       ` Matt Turner
2019-09-24  3:45       ` Matt Turner
2019-09-24  7:13         ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-24 15:39           ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 19:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-21 19:26   ` William Hubbs
2019-09-21 19:57     ` Michał Górny
2019-09-21 22:45       ` William Hubbs
2019-09-22  6:12         ` Michał Górny [this message]
2019-09-24  1:42   ` Jason Zaman
2019-09-24  3:43     ` Matt Turner
2019-09-24  6:16     ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-21 19:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2019-09-21 19:59   ` Michał Górny
2019-09-21 20:02     ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-09-21 20:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-21 22:01   ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 23:38     ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-22  9:16   ` Kent Fredric
2019-09-22 16:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Richard Yao

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