Summary of Gentoo council meeting 9 February 2020 Agenda ====== 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 ========= present: dilfridge, gyakovlev, patrick, slyfox, ulm, whissi, williamh 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)? 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 ==================================== 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 ========== Nothing was raised during open floor.