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Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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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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It's optimistic, to say the least, to think we could find every |
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contributor to Gentoo and get them to agree to either relicense or |
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reassign their copyrights. We're fairly enmeshed in v2. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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