Summary of Gentoo council meeting 9 February 2020

Agenda
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1. roll call

2. licensing ebuilds as gpl 2+

a. Can developers individually decide to license their ebuilds as GPL-2+
rather than 'GPL-2 only' (provided that they fulfill relicensing
requirements)?

b. Should developers be encouraged to use GPL-2+ for new ebuilds
(whenever possible)?

c. Should we start collecting permissions from contributors to relicense
their GPL-2 work as GPL-2+?  This will be helpful both to 1. and 2.

3. open bugs with council participation

4. open floor

roll call
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present: dilfridge, gyakovlev, patrick, slyfox, ulm, whissi, williamh

licensing ebuilds as GPL 2+
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a. Can developers individually decide to license their ebuilds as GPL-2+
rather than 'GPL-2 only' (provided that they fulfill relicensing
requirements)?

This motion failed with 4 no votes, 2 yes votes and one abstention.

b. Should developers be encouraged to use GPL-2+ for new ebuilds
(whenever possible)?

Since a failed, the council agreed that b failed.

c. Should we start collecting permissions from contributors to relicense
their GPL-2 work as GPL-2+?  This will be helpful both to a. and b.

Since a failed, the council agreed that c failed.

open bugs with council participation
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/662982 New default locations for the Gentoo repos
This is now waiting for #574752

https://bugs.gentoo.org/700364 License council summaries under CC-BY-SA-4.0
This is still waiting for replies and has been assigned directly to ulm.

open floor
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Nothing was raised during open floor.