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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Why are ebuilds licensed GPL v2 only (no later version)? |
| Date: | Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:37:02 |
| Message-Id: | 23146.63153.289235.130126@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de |
| 1 | Apparently licensing of the Gentoo repository was changed from GPL-2+ |
| 2 | to GPL-2 (only) in 2002, see for example [1] and [2]. I cannot find |
| 3 | any announcement or discussion about this. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Who was around in 2002 and still remembers what was the rationale? |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Ulrich |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo/historical.git/commit/skel.ebuild?id=e67af11c176e4dca33846e65c2649aa456de3099 |
| 10 | [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo/historical.git/commit/header.txt?id=dc4dfe8aa903fb467e648da80f8bc3178411a77a |
| Subject | Author |
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| [gentoo-dev] Re: Why are ebuilds licensed GPL v2 only (no later version)? | Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |