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From: Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@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 16:01:57
Message-Id: 4AA030C0.5010103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan wrote:
2 > Sebastian Pipping posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:49 +0200 as excerpted:
3 >
4 >
5 >> However I do notice that "GPL-2+" could make things easier. Why not
6 >> introduce a license group for it like @GPL-2+ or so, instead? That would
7 >> be transparent and use existing means.
8 >>
9 >
10 > I've always thought Gentoo needed "plus" versions of the versioned
11 > licenses, anyway. GPL-2, GPL-2+, GPL-3, and GPL-3+, should all be
12 > different licenses, because really, they are.
13 >
14 AFAIK, GPL-2 and GPL-2+ are not different, may you tell me more about that ?
15
16 Thanks,
17 Mounir

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?) "RĂ©mi Cardona" <remi@g.o>