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From: Stefan Schweizer <genstef@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:42:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <emhqhm$oc4$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200612222156.55163@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org

Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Comments, ideas, proposals?

currently we have all those under GPL-2. Now when GPL-3 becomes available
people have the option to use GPL-3. However that will still allow people
to use GPL-2 if their patents, etc need it. SO it is not much difference.

The big difference that actually matters is when applications start to get
distributed only for the GPL-3 and actually then I would also like to see
the LICENSE change to GPL-3.

I see little benifit in having GPL-2+ but a lot of potential confusion and a
lot of work for developers to check all pkges.

- Stefan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-22 23:47 UTC|newest]

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
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 ` Stefan Schweizer [this message]
2006-12-24 18:05 ` Stephen Bennett
2007-01-04  0:19   ` Kevin F. Quinn
2007-01-28  0:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill

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