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On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:07, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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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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I agree with this. Lets wait until they've got at least a "beta" version (the |
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contents decided, only the precise wording in review). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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