proposed FAQ entries about licensing

Jaroslav Hajek highegg at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 04:30:32 CDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Søren Hauberg <soren at hauberg.org> wrote:
> ons, 08 04 2009 kl. 11:08 +0200, skrev Jaroslav Hajek:
>> GPLv2 can be automatically promoted to GPLv3.
>
> Is that true? Doesn't that require the library to be licensed as "GPLv2
> or later" ?
>
> Søren
>

Right, it's not strictly true. What I meant is that the "standard
license header", as advised by FSF (gpl-howto) contains the
auto-promotion clause, so it's very likely to be the case for the code
Judd is referring to.


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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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