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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:37:48
Message-Id: 20563.48991.220204.544856@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds by Ulrich Mueller
1 >>>>> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2
3 >>>>> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
4 >> The "GPL-2+" file workaround doesn't sound to bad.
5
6 >> Call be picky, but we could actually use a "GPL-3+" file, too.
7 >> With that we could distinguish "exactly GPL 3" and "GPL 3 or later"
8 >> properly on our end, no matter if GPL 4 ever comes or not.
9
10 > Yes, that was the idea. Otherwise we would have to start over again
11 > whenever a GPL-4 appears.
12
13 > AFAICS, we would need 9 additional license files, namely GPL-{1,2,3}+,
14 > LGPL-{2,2.1,3}+, and FDL-{1.1,1.2,1.3}+.
15
16 Coming back to this, because the council has now rejected license
17 groups for EAPI 5. I would then create above-mentioned files in the
18 licenses dir.
19
20 Is it sufficient to include a reference to GPL-2 etc. like this:
21
22 ╓────[ GPL-2+ ]
23 ║ GNU General Public License version 2, or any later version.
24 ║ See GPL-2 or GPL-3 for the full text of these licenses.
25 ╙────
26
27 Or should the full license text of GPL-2 be repeated in the GPL-2+
28 file?
29
30 Ulrich

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