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



Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:
> * Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de) [070630 10:16]:

>> 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"?

> If it says "version N or later", we should of course point to the
> *earliest* version to give users the choice which version they want.

Wholeheartedly agreed.  I don't understand the rationale for doing
anything different.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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