Re: GPL "or any greater version"

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:22:47PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> But there's a bigger problem: you're advocating that the GPL was designed
> to allow a developer to impose a restriction on subsequent users which
> [a] is not expressed explicitly in the GPL, and [b] was not imposed by
> the original developer.  This conflicts with the expressed design intent
> of the GPL (see the preamble).  This also conflicts with how the GPL
> deals with another case of an optional restriction (see section 8).

If you dual-license code under the MPL and GPL, anyone may
modify and distribute the modification as GPL-only.  How is
that different from your situation?

Using the phrase "or any later version" is merely dual-licensing
(rather, multi-licensing) code under the GPLv2, GPLv3, etc.



dave...