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 for the GPL." > > The LICENSE would then be: > LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-RENEW" > > The advantage being that the renew clause is version independent, we don't > lose information, don't have to mutilate licenses (by adding text). If > desired it could even be used as LICENSE="|| (GPL-2 GPL-3) GPL-RENEW" > That last bit's excessive IMO. It seems to add complexity- does it mean you can have either of the GPL2 or 3 plus any later from that version? Why not just cover that with your first example, which I like a lot- it spells out the later clause, and as you say, is version-independent.
So GPL-3 GPL-RENEW could be specified, as well as simple GPL-2, or GPL-2 GPL-RENEW. (Just spelling it out, sorry.) I'm thinking about your example and I can see how it covers a user who *wants* to use GPL-3 (eg for their own code) but I still think that comes under GPL-2 GPL-RENEW as it's clearly allowed. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
