Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks (original) (raw)

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Subject: Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:06:52 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 877ipk9hoz.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20070701104958.GD15872@mails.so.argh.org> (Andreas Barth's message of "Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:49:58 +0200")
References: <20070629193137.31108.55438.reportbug@aragorn> None.LNX.4.64.0706292201200.24042@cantor.unex.es <20070629220318.GA3168@aragorn> None.LNX.4.64.0706300011130.26483@cantor.unex.es 87d4zdrhs7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de <[🔎] 20070701104958.GD15872@mails.so.argh.org>

Andreas Barth aba@not.so.argh.org writes:

Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de) [070630 10:16]:

But do we really want to license everything which is "GPL version 2 or later" under the GPL version 3?

And how do we discriminate between "GPL version 2 or later" and "GPL version 3 or later"?

If it says "version N or later", we should of course point to the earliest version to give users the choice which version they want.

Wholeheartedly agreed. I don't understand the rationale for doing anything different.

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