At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General Public
License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's alright to
license it to "any later version". Linux kernel for instance is licensed
_only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version.
What I propose is to copy licenses/GPL-2 to license/GPL-2+ and adding the
following notes at the start of the two files:
GPL-2:
Note: this license states that the software is licensed under GNU General
Public License version 2, and you might not be able to consider it licensed
under any later version.
GPL-2+:
Note: this license explicitly allows licensing under GNU General Public
License version 2 or, at your option, any later version.
Comments, ideas, proposals?
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...
License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's alright to
license it to "any later version". Linux kernel for instance is licensed
_only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version.
What I propose is to copy licenses/GPL-2 to license/GPL-2+ and adding the
following notes at the start of the two files:
GPL-2:
Note: this license states that the software is licensed under GNU General
Public License version 2, and you might not be able to consider it licensed
under any later version.
GPL-2+:
Note: this license explicitly allows licensing under GNU General Public
License version 2 or, at your option, any later version.
Comments, ideas, proposals?
--
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...