[gentoo-dev] Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-27 Thread Ryan Hill
Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: What I propose is to copy licenses/GPL-2 to license/GPL-2+ and adding the following notes at the start of the two files: GPL-2: Note: this license states that the software is licensed under GNU General Public License version 2, and you might not be able to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-04 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:54, Steve Long wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: I know that I'm a bit late on this, but to me the version 2 or later is a license by itself. Let's call it GPL-RENEW and let the file have contents like: This package is licensed with the version x or later clause

[gentoo-dev] Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Comments, ideas, proposals? currently we have all those under GPL-2. Now when GPL-3 becomes available people have the option to use GPL-3. However that will still allow people to use GPL-2 if their patents, etc need it. SO it is not much difference. The big