* Tobias Frost <tobi@coldtobi.de>, 2014-06-29, 10:00:
On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 01:00 -0300, Marcio de Souza Oliveira wrote:I got it wrong. But I see GPLv2(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt) and and there contains the words "... or (at your option) any later version.".If I remove the words "or (at your option) any later version." I would not be modifying the license?Yes, you'd change the license (which'd be a no-no)
Well, that's novel interpretation of the GPL. :-)The part of the license that was quoted is just an example how to use the license for you own programs, not a part of terms and conditions. It is NOT obligatory to use the “any later” phrase (see §9).
Instead you write "License: GPL-2.0+" (note the plus) to indicate the "any later version option".
No. We must document which license upstream uses, and they chose GPL version 2 only.
-- Jakub Wilk