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Seemant Kulleen wrote: [Thu Apr 13 2006, 01:03:44PM CDT] |
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> I'd like to engage in a little discussion about the future of the |
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> licenses that we license ebuilds under. In the beginnings of the |
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> distribution, ebuilds and portage were licensed as "GPL v2 or later". |
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> Two or so years ago, we dispensed with the "or later" business. Now that |
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> it is later, and there is a GPL beyond version 2, is GPL3 something we |
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> should think about/talk about/consider for future work or switching |
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> current work to? |
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For what it's worth, I would argue that there is no GPL beyond version 2 |
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yet. There is a proposal, but until it is finalized I'm not sure |
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it's worth discussing at any length. |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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