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On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:12:09 +0000, James wrote: |
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> 2. Keep licensing more in line with the BSD license for Gentoo centric |
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> technology (thus encouraging entrepreneurship as defined by the |
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> individual while simultaneously respecting GPLv2 and maintaining |
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> compliance with GPLv2. GPLv3 is a poor idea, IMHO. GPLv3 can be made |
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> easily available and leave GPLv3 compliance/responsibility up to the |
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> individual. In fact software licensing and compliance should always be |
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> up to the INDIVIDUAL, IMHO. |
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Absolutely not -- For BSD licensing please use BSD. I see no reason why |
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everything Gentoo related can't be GPL v2 -- after all, the kernel |
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certainly is. |
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I wouldn't want to see entrepreneurs take Gentoo, *improve* it, and then |
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not contribute those improvements back to Gentoo itself. That's what the |
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GPL versus BSD is about, to my knowledge. |
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That being said, it would be fantastic if the Gentoo Foundation found |
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ways to make money :) |
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-Thufir |
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