Bug 335670 – Re-license pym/repoman/herdbase.py from "GPL 2" to "GPL 2 or later"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Sebastian Pipping 2010-09-02 11:52:43 UTC]

Could you change

  # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

to

  # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later

in pym/repoman/herdbase.py for me?  You and I are the only authors on that file (see # git blame pym/repoman/herdbase.py).  I've been using it with GPL 3 code somewhere already and need a fix for that.  Thank you!

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2010-09-02 14:17:07 UTC]

Thanks, it's fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=53e2416ae4cecd0350e315f64694667dfbf59836

This makes me wonder if we should modify the skel.ebuild header in gentoo-x86 in the same way, since it seems like that's where this header was inherited from.

[Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping 2010-09-03 06:32:30 UTC]

Thank you!

(In reply to comment #1)
> This makes me wonder if we should modify the skel.ebuild header in gentoo-x86
> in the same way, since

As in requiring future ebuilds to be "GPL v2 or later"?
Maybe that's something to bring up on gentoo-project.
There must be some reason why we stick to pure GPL-2 for so long.
Not necessarily a good one, though :-)


> it seems like that's where this header was inherited
> from.

I honestly don't remember.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2010-09-07 15:14:44 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9 and 2.2_rc74.