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>>>>> On Tue, 05 Jan 2010, Vincent Launchbury wrote: |
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> Also, I was wondering about LGPL-2 and GPL-1, surely they're |
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> GPL-compatible? The suggested license header in |
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> /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-1 contains "either version 1, or (at your |
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> option) any later version." The LGPL-2 suggests 2 or later also. It's |
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> strange that the FSF doesn't mention them. |
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It would be strange if the GPL-1 wasn't GPL-compatible. |
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> Either way, the groups should definitely be expanded. |
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I just went though a recent stage3. We would need the following |
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licenses in addition to @FSF-APPROVED and @OSI-APPROVED to cover all |
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packages in it: |
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BZIP2 |
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CRACKLIB |
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FLEX |
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freedist |
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LGPL-2 |
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libgcc (add-on clause for GPL-2) |
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libstdc++ (add-on clause for GPL-2) |
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PAM (identical to "|| ( BSD GPL-2 )"?) |
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popt (identical to MIT) |
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SMAIL |
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tcp_wrappers_license |
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They all look like free software licenses to me (but IANAL), with |
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the exception of "freedist" which only says "Freely Distributable". |
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It is used by two packages in stage3, namely sys-apps/man-pages and |
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sys-apps/man-pages-posix. |
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Ulrich |
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