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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:34:22
Message-Id: 200612222331.17989@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ by Yuri Vasilevski
1 On Friday 22 December 2006 22:53, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
2 > While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special
3 > case of multiple licensing) we do:
4 >
5 > LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3"
6 >
7 > when it becomes available?
8 There is one problem at least for this: to apply this method you'd have to
9 change _all_ the ebuilds in the tree referring to GPL-2 or later when GPL-3
10 is published, while with GPL-2+ we can start gradually now.
11
12 Also it would be more useful for users to know what can be licensed in 2+ and
13 what requires 2 strictly.
14
15 --
16 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+ Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@g.o>