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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> On Friday 22 December 2006 22:53, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: |
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>> While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special |
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>> case of multiple licensing) we do: |
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>> LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3" |
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>> when it becomes available? |
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> There is one problem at least for this: to apply this method you'd have to |
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> change _all_ the ebuilds in the tree referring to GPL-2 or later when GPL-3 |
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> is published, while with GPL-2+ we can start gradually now. |
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> Also it would be more useful for users to know what can be licensed in 2+ and |
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> what requires 2 strictly. |
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GPL-2+ would need to be a license GROUP however. |
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Say I approve only GPL-3 packages (cause' I hate patents, and I dislike |
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having a working system too!). This would encompass anything strictly |
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GPL-3 and also anything GPL-2+ (which would then be under 3 at my option |
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in this case). |
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