Re: Software Licenced Under a Specific Version of GPL

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:18:35PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
:On 20010830T084026-0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
:> $ head -3 /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
:>                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
:>                        Version 2, June 1991
:
:Yes, but that will probably not be true forever.

Forever is a long time.  If you refer to the file system location,
that's part of maintaining a package.

I suspect you mean the GPL version.  Typically licensing is "GPL v2 or
later", which this (I presume) will track.  If you want to specificly
use v2 only, a qustion comes up that I don't know the answer to.

Is the "or later" clause part of the GPL?

-Jon