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From: Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:21
Message-Id: 20061222155325.0f97c017@dukebook.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 Hi,
2
3 On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100
4 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
5
6 > At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General
7 > Public License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's
8 > alright to license it to "any later version". Linux kernel for
9 > instance is licensed _only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version.
10
11 I don't think this is a good solution, as in any case the package is
12 licensed under GPL-2, so how about for the packages that only support
13 GPL-2 we set:
14
15 LICENSE="GPL-2"
16
17 While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special
18 case of multiple licensing) we do:
19
20 LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3"
21
22 when it becomes available?
23
24 Best,
25 Yuri.
26
27 --
28 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>