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Re: Acknowledgment clause in GPL code?



On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:25:41 -0600 Terry Hancock wrote:

[...]
> It *is* a less-than-perfectly-written grant statement, primarily
> because it doesn't mention the version of the license. But given that
> GPLv2 has been the *ONLY* significant version of the GPL for over a
> decade, it's pretty obvious that that is the one which was meant.

The intended version could be v2, but the result is different.
When no GPL version is specified, *any* (published) version may be
chosen by the recipient.

This rule is clearly stated in the GPLv2 text itself; see section 9.,
which reads, in part:

| If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you
| may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.


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