Bug#517191: One example for #517191
Hi!
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@debian.org> writes:
>> The Debian packaging is licensed under the GPL-2 or any later version,
>> see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'
>>
>> If possible, it should warn that the it should use
>> /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
>
> No, that example should definitely not use /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
> It is currently correct and changing it in that way would be incorrect,
> since /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL is GPL v3.
But "or any later version" doesn't mean that we can use version 3 and
all the other future versions? Isn't it valid to point to the latest
license version?
Thank you!
Best regards,
Nelson
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