Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

[Alec Warner]

Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100
> "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
>
>> At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General
>> Public License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's
>> alright to license it to "any later version". Linux kernel for
>> instance is licensed _only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version.
>
> I don't think this is a good solution, as in any case the package is
> licensed under GPL-2, so how about for the packages that only support
> GPL-2 we set:
>
> LICENSE="GPL-2"
>
> While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special
> case of multiple licensing) we do:
>
> LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3"

If you meant:

LICENSE=" || ( GPL-2 GPL-3 )"

then I agree ;)

It would be under Either the GPL-2 OR a later version, not both, yes?

-Alec Warner

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