Re: Does this license meet DSFG?

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Thu, 08 Apr 2010, Dererk wrote:

>   1. You may use, modify, and redistribute the software under the
>      terms of the GPL version 2 as distributed here:
>   2. You may use, modify, and redistribute the software under the
>      terms of the GPL version 3, as found in the file COPYING and
>      distributed here:
>   3. You may use, modify, and redistributed the software under any
>      version of the GPL greater than 3.
> 
>   4. You may use, modify, and redistribute the software under a
>      modified version of the GPL version 3 (or, at your option, a
>      modified version of any higher-numbered version of the GPL) that
>      places additional restrictions on advertising and labeling of the
>      software, provided that all of the following conditions are met:

>        d. All recipients of the software retain the ability to
>           distribute the software under any subset they wish of
>           conditions 1-3 of this license provided they remove the
>           incoporated OpenSSL library.

So I cannot combine a work licensed under this license with a work
licensed under GPL3 + SSL exception because the latter does not
allow downgrading to gpl2 (or upgrading to gpl3+).

Is this intentional?

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