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Re: Question about multiple licenses


From: Arun Isaac
Subject: Re: Question about multiple licenses
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:00:47 +0530

Efraim Flashner writes:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:55:34PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
>>
>> Alex Vong writes:
>>
>> > Based on the above general argument, I think we should list all the
>> > licenses instead of just GPLv2+ since it would be inaccurate to say that
>> > the whole program is under just GPLv2+.
>>
>> Listing all the licenses does seem like the safest thing to do.
>>
>> > Also, in this particular case, since ASL2.0 is incompatible with GPLv2,
>> > we actually need to take advantage of the "or later" clause, and
>> > "upgrades" it to "GPLv3+".
>>
>> Is there any Guix package where we have actually done such a license
>> upgrade?
>
> We have a couple of packages which state "GPL" and we've chosen GPL1+ or
> something similar.

Hmmm. This is not quite similar to the case of multiple licenses with the
linkchecker package. I'll go ahead with listing all the licenses if
there are no objections.



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