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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, licenses <licenses@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:27:04
Message-Id: 20190921192655.GA8415@linux1.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:17:53PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > >>>>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >
4 > > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having
5 > > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's
6 > > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'.
7 >
8 > This has been discussed before. There is no such license as GPL-2-only.
9
10 I am with ulm on this one.
11 We have GPL-2 and GPL-2+ in the tree. The way I read this,
12 LICENSE="GPL-2" means GPL 2 only and LICENSE="GPL-2+" means GPL-2+.
13
14 William

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