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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: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:17:37
Message-Id: 20444.52612.975741.84931@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds by Sebastian Pipping
1 >>>>> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
2
3 > On 05/10/2012 11:39 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 >> Are there any other licenses besides *GPL and FDL that would
5 >> require such a file?
6 >>
7 >> What do you think?
8
9 > The "GPL-2+" file workaround doesn't sound to bad.
10
11 > Call be picky, but we could actually use a "GPL-3+" file, too.
12 > With that we could distinguish "exactly GPL 3" and "GPL 3 or later"
13 > properly on our end, no matter if GPL 4 ever comes or not.
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15 Yes, that was the idea. Otherwise we would have to start over again
16 whenever a GPL-4 appears.
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18 AFAICS, we would need 9 additional license files, namely GPL-{1,2,3}+,
19 LGPL-{2,2.1,3}+, and FDL-{1.1,1.2,1.3}+.
20
21 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>