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



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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