Paul de Vrieze wrote: > My idea for the second way is basically to make the life of tools easier. > It would make explicit that someone accepting GPL-3, but not GPL-2 would > be able to accept a GPL-2 and later license. > Ah, I see what I'm missing- you're saying a tool could just check for the specific license. I dunno, though, my inclination is that it'd be better just to build a slightly smarter tool in the first place.
GPL-RENEW is the codification of the `or any later version' phrase, and is effectively unlimited (as is the phrase), agreed? So when another license came in, we'd have to add, say, GPL-4 to all those pkgs with GPL-RENEW in them just to make it easier for the tools, which we could have built smart in the first place. That sounds like too much of a maintenance hassle to me, as well as making the ebuilds (slightly) larger across the board. But that was a minor point- the idea of GPL-RENEW is sound IMO. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
