Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:05:00 +0200 From: Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl> To: Alberto Villa <avilla@freebsd.org> Cc: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd.licenses.mk: where is "or any later version" construct? Message-ID: <20100611070459.GA67163@mud.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <201006101853.52338.avilla@freebsd.org> References: <86aar2x5fb.fsf@gmail.com> <201006101853.52338.avilla@freebsd.org>
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--9amGYk9869ThD9tj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Alberto Villa wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 17:39:52 Anonymous wrote: > > IANAL, but I think LGPL3 is applicable here, too. So, I've tried to set > > LICENSE= LGPL21+ > > but it doesn't work. I've figured this will work > > LICENSE= LGPL21 LGPL3 > > LICENSE_COMB= dual > > Is this correct usage or I'm missing smth? > that's what you're supposed to do, as far as i understand This doesn't seem right: "LGPL21 or any later version" is very different from "LGPL21 or LGPL3". Also, how should one describe the difference between a "GPL3" and a "GPL3 or any later version" licence? There might not be a newer version right now, but there will be in the future and it would be rather annoying if we'd have to check all the software licences again when this version is released. We'd then have to change the licence registration for each such port, even though neither the software nor its licence text has changed - but only because of limitations of our framework. Since this is a very common practice with GPL and LGPL licences, imho it seems sensible to make this distinction right from the start and use different keywords for software with/without the "or any later version" clause. Regards, Johan --9amGYk9869ThD9tj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF4EAREIAAYFAkwR4BsACgkQAEpMHW8nCPQBBwEA3gfQfBbpwuv3/0O2nrcJujxA krFpKBf5z8zvF9+afIcBAIUO1snnyOHE7GrZbWbrX0rUF7odlYYdzj7eo7Ewgiay =aEKP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9amGYk9869ThD9tj--
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