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From: Vincent Launchbury <vincent@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation licenses and license_groups
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:16:11
Message-Id: 4B43739E.3020703@doublecreations.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Documentation licenses and license_groups by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > Shouldn't all licenses listed at <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/>
3 > (unless marked as non-free) be added to FSF-APPROVED? These would be
4 > the following:
5
6 Great idea, that would remove a lot of hassle.
7
8 Also, I was wondering about LGPL-2 and GPL-1, surely they're
9 GPL-compatible? The suggested license header in
10 /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-1 contains "either version 1, or (at your
11 option) any later version." The LGPL-2 suggests 2 or later also. It's
12 strange that the FSF doesn't mention them.
13
14 Either way, the groups should definitely be expanded.

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