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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New PUEL license
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:38:31
Message-Id: 4CBAEEAD.9050803@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New PUEL license by Lars Wendler
1 On 10/16/2010 05:26 PM, Lars Wendler wrote:
2 > Hi folks,
3 >
4 > a couple of weeks ago I was told that the PUEL license we have in our license
5 > pool is outdated. We currently have version 6 from July 28, 2008 but latest
6 > virtualbox releases come with version 8 from April 19, 2010.
7 > A quick glance at the diff between both licenses revealed nothing but
8 > replacement of SUN with Oracle and some small wording changes but as english
9 > is not my native language I find it quite hard to understand licenses written
10 > in english and distinguish between wording changes with big or rather small
11 > impact on the license. Last but not least IANAL of course.
12 > So I'd appreciate if someone could have a deeper look at the differences and
13 > tell me if it's okay to just drop the old license and add the new one of if we
14 > need to keep both, old and new one in our license pool.
15 >
16
17 We can drop the old one if we have no versions in tree that would use
18 that particular text.
19
20 Regards,
21 Petteri

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