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From: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:05:27
Message-Id: 201001071837.38458.hanno@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue by Ulrich Mueller
1 Am Donnerstag 07 Januar 2010 schrieb Ulrich Mueller:
2 > >>>>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote:
3 > >
4 > > I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with
5 > > it is, as stated by various people, that we have different GPLs.
6 > > GPL2 and 3 are incompatible, so it doesn't mean "GPL-compatible" are
7 > > all licenses that can be mixed together. I don't know how/if we
8 > > should resolve this.
9 >
10 > So what do you suggest? Remove "GPL-COMPATIBLE" and move everything
11 > into "FSF-APPROVED"?
12
13 Yeah, I think that's reasonable.
14
15 I'm currently in contact with FSF-people so I hope we can clarify if all the
16 "looks free but is not mentioned on the FSF homepage"-licenses.
17
18 > > For documentation, we may want to have another set? I'll add one
19 > > with the well known free documentation licenses (FDL, CC by, cc
20 > > by-sa). If we decide to go some other way, we can throw it away, but
21 > > I wanted to start something ;-)
22 >
23 > Is your "FREE-DOCUMENTS" meant to include things like fonts, or do we
24 > need another group for them?
25
26 I was unsure about that but I'd say yes unless we want to complicate things
27 more than neccessary. I already put in one font license.
28
29 --
30 Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>