On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:19:23PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > This excerpt is quite clear: > > A Program may specify GPL2 and "any later version" - check > If the Program just says "GPL", the recipient may use any version - check > > If the Program says "GPL v2" alone, there's nothing in S9 that leads > to later versions being applicable.
I can see why you'd think that. However, that's not one of the terms offered by GPL v2. Perhaps there will be a GPL v3 which offers something analogous to "GPL v2 alone" as one of its terms. [Note also that this mode of thinking is very similar in nature to that behind the desert island and dissident tests, as well as being similar in nature to the thinking which claims that a license which offers extra freedoms beyond those required by the DFSG makes a license non-free if only the copyright holders have those freedoms.] In any event, I can't find any versions of gcc which are being distributed under "GPL v2 alone" terms. Let alone versions where those terms seem are valid. -- Raul
