On 19 August 2015 at 09:17, Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukko...@intel.com> wrote:

> >> * License is now GPLv3+
> >
> > What about GPLv2 version which was preserved (IIRC) in prevous patch?
> >
> > Why did you decide to drop it now?
>
> Mostly because of Ross' comment "Is screen considered sufficiently
> core that we should maintain both GPLv2 and v3 recipes?  I'm not
> convinced it is".
>
> I did try to coax people to explain their thoughts in a little more
> detail (because I wasn't sure what exactly they were saying) in my
> reply on Aug 12 but no-one did... So I figured it's better to talk
> with patches: I believe maintaining the GPLv2 version is not a great
> use of anyones time (and I think it's fair to say that the recipe
> wasn't receiving the sort of attention it would have required) and
> making a developer tool like that GPLv3 shouldn't be a problem to most
> people.


FWIW, I still agree with my statement and with Jussi here.

Ross
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