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From: "Wulf C. Krueger" <philantrop@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 11:54:11
Message-Id: 200707081350.27220.philantrop@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. by "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)"
1 On Sunday, 08. July 2007 13:04:24 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
2 > What about moving Gentoo stuff to `GPLv3 or later'?
3
4 I'm strongly opposed to the "or later" part for the simple reason that
5 this implicates we will agree with stuff we don't even know yet.
6
7 Therefore, I'm glad our current copyright notice doesn't do this either:
8
9 "Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2"
10
11 I haven't studied GPL-3 fully yet so I haven't formed an opinion about
12 moving to it alone.
13
14 Best regards, Wulf

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