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From: Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:09:00
Message-Id: 1183899969.6634.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. by "Wulf C. Krueger"
1 On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 13:50 +0200, Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
2 > On Sunday, 08. July 2007 13:04:24 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
3 > > What about moving Gentoo stuff to `GPLv3 or later'?
4 >
5 > I'm strongly opposed to the "or later" part for the simple reason that
6 > this implicates we will agree with stuff we don't even know yet.
7
8 Hear hear. That's why we removed the "or later" rubbish from our
9 licenses about 4 years ago.
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12 > I haven't studied GPL-3 fully yet so I haven't formed an opinion about
13 > moving to it alone.
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16 I'm not certain what it buys us to move to v3, to be honest. Unless
17 there are compelling reasons to do so, I don't think it's worth the
18 effort to change it.
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20 Seemant

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@×××××××××.ch>