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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: licenses <licenses@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 06:12:43
Message-Id: 50df0c8d74f286393362bf5d089706c69f44e63e.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing by William Hubbs
1 On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 17:45 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 14:26 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
4 > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:17:53PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
6 > > > > > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having
7 > > > > > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's
8 > > > > > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'.
9 > > > >
10 > > > > This has been discussed before. There is no such license as GPL-2-only.
11 > > >
12 > > > I am with ulm on this one.
13 > > > We have GPL-2 and GPL-2+ in the tree. The way I read this,
14 > > > LICENSE="GPL-2" means GPL 2 only and LICENSE="GPL-2+" means GPL-2+.
15 > > >
16 > >
17 > > Have you read my original mail?
18 >
19 > Yes, and I just did again, and my position is still the same.
20 >
21
22 I know what we have now and what it means. The mail includes long
23 explanation why this doesn't work. Repeating what we have now does not
24 bring any argument to the discussion, except for anger/demotivation
25 because it feels like you've completely ignored most of the mail
26 and just reject it on the basis of 'it's not what we have now'.
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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