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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:14:49
Message-Id: epgplq$lnj$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote:
2 > What I propose is to copy licenses/GPL-2 to license/GPL-2+ and adding the
3 > following notes at the start of the two files:
4 >
5 > GPL-2:
6 > Note: this license states that the software is licensed under GNU General
7 > Public License version 2, and you might not be able to consider it licensed
8 > under any later version.
9 >
10 > GPL-2+:
11 > Note: this license explicitly allows licensing under GNU General Public
12 > License version 2 or, at your option, any later version.
13
14 Was there ever a consensus on this? I think it's an important issue and
15 am willing to help with an audit.
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