>>>>> 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 era before GPLv3 existed and there was > some uncertainty about what its legal terms were going to be, while those > of the GPLv2 were known, it had broad community support, and was at > least /somewhat/ legally tested.
The timing isn't quite right, though. The license change for skel.ebuild happened as early as 2002-05-07. According to [1], the Zynot fork occured in 2003 (and zwelch got involved with Gentoo not before June 2002). So maybe the Zynot fork reinforced the decision, but it cannot be the original reason for the license change. Ulrich [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030707080226/http://www.zynot.org:80/info/fork.html
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