Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-09 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote: So what do you suggest? Remove GPL-COMPATIBLE and move everything into FSF-APPROVED? Yeah, I think that's reasonable. I've just learned that GLEP 23 explicitly requires GPL-COMPATIBLE to be present. The GLEP would also require a NON-MUST-HAVE-READ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-09 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 08:52:10PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote: So what do you suggest? Remove GPL-COMPATIBLE and move everything into FSF-APPROVED? Yeah, I think that's reasonable. I've just learned that GLEP 23 explicitly requires GPL-COMPATIBLE

[gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Had some more thoughts about that licensing issue and wanted to make some suggestions. I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with it is, as stated by various people, that we have different GPLs. GPL2 and 3 are incompatible, so it doesn't mean GPL-compatible are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote: I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with it is, as stated by various people, that we have different GPLs. GPL2 and 3 are incompatible, so it doesn't mean GPL-compatible are all licenses that can be mixed together. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/07/2010 05:46 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. ++ Difference between OSI and FSF approved: ... I think the definitions of FSF and OSI are pretty much the same, ... So I'd like it much more to have one big This is free and open source software

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on the licensing issue

2010-01-07 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Donnerstag 07 Januar 2010 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Hanno Böck wrote: I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with it is, as stated by various people, that we have different GPLs. GPL2 and 3 are incompatible, so it doesn't mean GPL-compatible