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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, licenses <licenses@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:40:24
Message-Id: CAEdQ38H60B4kAv+LLg46Y+E5Lf26uL9OY7ePsxb+mVE0OWD6cA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:13 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > >>>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Matt Turner wrote:
4 >
5 > > Just responding because the absurdity of this angers me, to be honest.
6 > > See if you notice anything funny about the URL:
7 >
8 > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html
9 >
10 > What do you mean? Should we localise it, because translations in other
11 > languages exist? Sorry, but that's not going to happen.
12
13 No, I am pointing out that even the GNU project sometimes refers to
14 the license as GPL "2.0", which you seemed to object to SPDX doing.