[gentoo-dev] Re: Why are ebuilds licensed GPL v2 only (no later version)?

2018-01-26 Thread Duncan
Luigi Mantellini posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:02:39 +0100 as excerpted: > can help? > > https://lwn.net/Articles/74055/ Thanks. I'd forgotten the (long) post I made there, but while it doesn't talk about the GPLv2-only stuff, it certainly reflects the zynot stuff in far more detail than I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why are ebuilds licensed GPL v2 only (no later version)?

2018-01-26 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: > The switch to GPLv2-only would have been made in the fight for its life > that was the Gentoo/Zynot fork, and almost certainly had to do with > trying to ensure that the gentoo/x86 tree could not be taken private > without community recourse, in an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why are ebuilds licensed GPL v2 only (no later version)?

2018-01-26 Thread Luigi Mantellini
can help? https://lwn.net/Articles/74055/ On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Ulrich Mueller posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:36:49 +0100 as excerpted: > > > Apparently licensing of the Gentoo repository was changed from GPL-2+ > > to GPL-2 (only) in 2002, see

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why are ebuilds licensed GPL v2 only (no later version)?

2018-01-26 Thread Duncan
Ulrich Mueller posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:36:49 +0100 as excerpted: > Apparently licensing of the Gentoo repository was changed from GPL-2+ > to GPL-2 (only) in 2002, see for example [1] and [2]. I cannot find any > announcement or discussion about this. > > Who was around in 2002 and still