On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 12:49 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:12 +0000, Jose' Matos wrote: > > While searching for tags used in the License field for Extras I got this > > result: > > > 1 GPL version 2 or newer > > 1 GPL version 2 or later. > > 1 GPL version 2 or later > > 1 GPLv2 > IMO, all these above are superfluous and should be changed into "GPL", > because current "GPL" always implies "GPLv2 or later/newer". Not all authors agree with this. [quote from="http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273";] The Linux kernel has always been under the GPL v2. Nothing else has ever been valid. The "version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version" language in the GPL copying file is not - and has never been - part of the actual License itself. It's part of the _explanatory_ text that talks about how to apply the license to your program, and it says that _if_ you want to accept any later versions of the GPL, you can state so in your source code. [/quote] So at least the GPLv2 one - being it the Linux kernel - should remain GPLv2. -- Iago Rubio -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
