[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> My idea for the second way is basically to make the life of tools easier.
> It would make explicit that someone accepting GPL-3, but not GPL-2 would
> be able to accept a GPL-2 and later license.
> 
Ah, I see what I'm missing- you're saying a tool could just check for the
specific license. I dunno, though, my inclination is that it'd be better
just to build a slightly smarter tool in the first place.

GPL-RENEW is the codification of the `or any later version' phrase, and is
effectively unlimited (as is the phrase), agreed? So when another license
came in, we'd have to add, say, GPL-4 to all those pkgs with GPL-RENEW in
them just to make it easier for the tools, which we could have built smart
in the first place. That sounds like too much of a maintenance hassle to
me, as well as making the ebuilds (slightly) larger across the board.

But that was a minor point- the idea of GPL-RENEW is sound IMO.


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