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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:07:21
Message-Id: 4AA031DE.5050702@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) by Mounir Lamouri
1 Le 03/09/2009 23:10, Mounir Lamouri a écrit :
2 > Duncan wrote:
3 >> Sebastian Pipping posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:49 +0200 as excerpted:
4 >>
5 >>
6 >>> However I do notice that "GPL-2+" could make things easier. Why not
7 >>> introduce a license group for it like @GPL-2+ or so, instead? That would
8 >>> be transparent and use existing means.
9 >>>
10 >>
11 >> I've always thought Gentoo needed "plus" versions of the versioned
12 >> licenses, anyway. GPL-2, GPL-2+, GPL-3, and GPL-3+, should all be
13 >> different licenses, because really, they are.
14 >>
15 > AFAIK, GPL-2 and GPL-2+ are not different, may you tell me more about that ?
16
17 GPL-2+ means "GPL-2 GPL-3 GPL-4 ..."
18
19 Not quite the same thing as just "GPL-2"
20
21 Rémi

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@g.o>