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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds |
| Date: | Thu, 10 May 2012 09:40:23 |
| Message-Id: | 20395.36035.903518.990293@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de |
| 1 | Long standing problem: Some of our most used license tags like "GPL-2" |
| 2 | are ambiguous, denoting either GPL-2 only or GPL-2 or later. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | One solution would be license groups in ebuilds, which could be added |
| 5 | to EAPI 5 [1]. Disadvantage would be that they cannot be used in |
| 6 | previous EAPIs. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Alternatively, we could create separate license files like GPL-2+, as |
| 9 | suggested in [2], especially since the "plus" versions now have their |
| 10 | own entry in the SPDX license list [3]. Are there any other licenses |
| 11 | besides *GPL and FDL that would require such a file? |
| 12 | |
| 13 | What do you think? |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Ulrich |
| 16 | |
| 17 | [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287192> |
| 18 | [2] <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c004fd342c57062d71455109fa52ac0.xml> |
| 19 | [3] <http://www.spdx.org/licenses/> |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds | Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds | Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> |