Excerpts from Ronald van Haren's message of 2010-08-26 13:29:09 +0200:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> wrote:
Excerpts from Roberto Alsina's message of 2010-08-26 13:16:05 +0200:
On Thursday 26 August 2010 08:12:23 Ronald van Haren wrote:
My second point was that we don't know what the future will bring. Will new applications being licensed under GPL2 or later, GPL3 or later, GPL4, GPL4 or later... there are lots of options. There are lots of possibilities and I'm wondering if it is at all feasible to create a naming scheme which will fit all.
Sure:
GPL2 GPL2+ GPL3 GPL3+ etc.
That's what I'd be in favor of. I'm not sure the '+' is the best way, because it has other meanings than 'any later' as well.
I missed the bloody obvious.... :lol:
For convenience, you may want to make GPL the equivalent of GPL2+
I think that's not convenient but confusing. --
Even with setting GPL to GPL2+, it is a lot of work. I don't even want to think about the amount of work it creates not doing so... Not sure if it is really worth the effort at this point.
Ronald
That's the trouble. The current naming scheme isn't future proof. Changing it would be a lot of work as it affects every single package and pacman and helpers. I guess we could extend the current scheme in a future proof manner, but overall it would be inconsistent. Keep the current meaning: GPL = GPL2 or later GPL2 = GPL2 only GPL3 = GPL3 or later Add something for the GPL3 only case: GPL3o = GPL3 only <- find some nicer way Basically start a new, consistent scheme with GPL4: GPL4 = GPL4 only GPL4+ = GPL4 or later .. If they come up with something fancier than a plain 'or later' we might be in trouble again. Alternatively: Keep the current meaning: GPL = GPL2 or later GPL2 = GPL2 only GPL3 = GPL3 or later Add something for the GPL3 only case: GPL3o = GPL3 only <- find some nicer way Keep using the GPL3 way: GPL4 = GPL4 or later GPL4o = GPL4 only It's all a bunch of hacks to avoid a transition from the current scheme to a new one. Maybe a solution would be to find a way to ease said transition. -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan