The ebuild says: LICENSE="LGPL-3" The README in the GMP tarball for 6.0.0 says: """ The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: * the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. or * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. or both in parallel, as here. """ I think we should fix it so that LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2+ LGPL-3 )"
(In reply to Patrick Lauer from comment #0) > The ebuild says: > > LICENSE="LGPL-3" > > The README in the GMP tarball for 6.0.0 says: > > """ > The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of either: > > * the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free > Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your > option) any later version. > > or > > * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software > Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any > later version. > > or both in parallel, as here. > """ > > I think we should fix it so that LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2+ LGPL-3 )" Patrick. GPLv2 says "or (at your option) any later version." So its okay as it is, or its okay with your modification. I'm no international copyright lawyer, but I think the language is clear that its at our option. Comments?
It should be "|| ( LGPL-3+ GPL-2+ )". We try to reflect the upstream license as accurate as possible in our LICENSE variable.
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2) > It should be "|| ( LGPL-3+ GPL-2+ )". We try to reflect the upstream license > as accurate as possible in our LICENSE variable. Yes, note to patrick. It should be LGPL-3+ with the + because of the "or (at your option) any later version." I'll change it later if all are in agreement with "|| ( LGPL-3+ GPL-2+ )".
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2) feel free to make that change
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #4) > (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2) > > feel free to make that change I committed that. I also looked at <= gmp-5.1.3-r1.ebuild (not all the ebuilds but a few of the gmp-5's and gmp-4.) It seems the license was exaclty LGPL-3 up until gmp-6.
