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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LICENSE and revbumps
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:10:10
Message-Id: 18612.61374.638787.637906@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] LICENSE and revbumps by Ryan Hill
1 > Should LICENSE changes require a revision bump?
2
3 No, since it would be a waste of users' resources.
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5 For example, if a dev has missed a change from GPL-2 to GPL-3 (which I
6 guess is a common case), would you really have users reinstall the
7 package in this case? What would be the benefit?
8
9 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] LICENSE and revbumps Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@g.o>