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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: licenses <licenses@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:45:40
Message-Id: 20190921224530.GA10927@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 14:26 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:17:53PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 > > > > > > > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > > > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having
6 > > > > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's
7 > > > > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'.
8 > > >
9 > > > This has been discussed before. There is no such license as GPL-2-only.
10 > >
11 > > I am with ulm on this one.
12 > > We have GPL-2 and GPL-2+ in the tree. The way I read this,
13 > > LICENSE="GPL-2" means GPL 2 only and LICENSE="GPL-2+" means GPL-2+.
14 > >
15 >
16 > Have you read my original mail?
17
18 Yes, and I just did again, and my position is still the same.
19
20 William

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