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

Scribit Anthony W. Youngman dies 02/07/2007 hora 21:37:

But do we really want to license everything which is "GPL version 2 or later" under the GPL version 3? Actually, YOU CAN'T.

The only person who can CHANGE the licence is the person who owns the copyright.

Actually, the text seems to say the contrary:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Redistributing it under the terms of a later version is, in any aspect, changing its license... And that's something the license makes possible, in the same way that a BSD or MIT license makes it possible to distribute the code under GPL (or as a binary-only application, for that matter). Doubtfully, Pierre

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