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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Solving the problem of huge number of wrong LICENSES=*GPL-[23]
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:31:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_nLnzUYG1SfCir8251PYPDCbveMAs-k0vDwPXKBjVbYsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4004237.4pTCg0tAxr@saffron>

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 6:46 PM Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can say that if the licenses are habitually misidentified, I could not use
> Gentoo's portage tree in my job without extensive and ongoing revalidation of
> the license metadata.
>

Keep in mind that we're just talking about GPL-2 vs 2+ and GPL-3 vs
3+.  We're not talking about GPL vs BSD vs something that involves a
EULA.

Do you actually accept one of these without the other, such that you
would have problems if they had gotten confused?

-- 
Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-31 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-26 10:39 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Solving the problem of huge number of wrong LICENSES=*GPL-[23] Michał Górny
2018-08-26 10:53 ` Mart Raudsepp
2018-08-26 11:09   ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-08-26 11:15     ` Michał Górny
2018-08-26 11:33       ` Roy Bamford
2018-08-26 11:35       ` Rich Freeman
2018-08-26 17:03       ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-08-27 22:46     ` Michael Mol
2018-08-31 22:31       ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2018-09-01  7:44       ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-08-26 15:50 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-26 17:14   ` Michał Górny
2018-08-26 18:14     ` Mart Raudsepp
2018-08-26 19:43       ` M. J. Everitt
2018-08-26 19:45       ` Francesco Riosa
2018-08-26 19:50         ` Francesco Riosa
2018-08-26 22:40   ` Jonas Stein
     [not found]   ` <3116195.kUm3yr6LE6@hermes>
2018-08-26 22:41     ` Robin H. Johnson
2018-08-27  2:55       ` Ulrich Mueller
     [not found]         ` <3623085.8soZgasqjt@hermes>
2018-08-27  7:35           ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-27  2:37     ` Ulrich Mueller

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