Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks
* Santiago Vila:
> + file. Packages should not refer to GPL and LGPL symlinks in
> + that directory since different, incompatible versions of these
> + licenses have been published by the Free Software Foundation,
> + hence using the symlinks could lead to ambiguity.
>
> I disagree with this. It should be ok to point to the latest version
> of the GPL if the program says "Version X or later". Many programs
> do that, and we should not need to change them.
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"?
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