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>>>>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: |
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> The switch to GPLv2-only would have been made in the fight for its life |
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> that was the Gentoo/Zynot fork, and almost certainly had to do with |
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> trying to ensure that the gentoo/x86 tree could not be taken private |
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> without community recourse, in an era before GPLv3 existed and there was |
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> some uncertainty about what its legal terms were going to be, while those |
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> of the GPLv2 were known, it had broad community support, and was at |
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> least /somewhat/ legally tested. |
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The timing isn't quite right, though. The license change for |
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skel.ebuild happened as early as 2002-05-07. According to [1], the |
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Zynot fork occured in 2003 (and zwelch got involved with Gentoo not |
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before June 2002). So maybe the Zynot fork reinforced the decision, |
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but it cannot be the original reason for the license change. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030707080226/http://www.zynot.org:80/info/fork.html |
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