Release plans

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Sat Feb 19 05:27:37 EST 2011


Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>> Regarding Re: Release plans; "Stephen J. Turnbull"
>> <stephen at xemacs.org> adds:
>
>    > Uwe Brauer writes:
>
>    > Not until there are GPLv3+ packages, of which there are none
>    > currently.
>
>
> BTW how is the transition from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ for the
> package system supposed to work?
>
> I suppose we need a branch at some point, since we are not
> going to change the license of _all_ packages at once, and
> we can't release some packages with GPLv3+ and others with
> GPLv2+.

GPLv2+ should be unproblematic I think.  GPLv2 would be troublesome.

-- 
David Kastrup



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