Hi, On Friday 14 December 2007 00:37, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:06:27PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > And yes, if you refer to "the GPL" today, it certainly means GPL3. > Not at all. Well, at least not completely. ;-) GNU GPL 3 itself says > about this (section 14): Wow, thanks for the info. > > > Are now all packages buggy that reference > > > /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL instead of GPL-2 because GPL now > > > points to GPL-3? > > Yes. > Only if they are "GPL 2 only". Right. I ment that ;) (But thats meaningless, in legalize the words matter.) > GPL 3 is a valid license for a GPL2+ > licensed work. It might be better to reference both version 2 and 3, > but referencing version 3 is certainly not wrong. It "just" changes the meaning... ;) Thanks too, Holger
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