On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:31:12PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > The problem arrive if you release a patch that sayd GPL v2 alone, against a > program which is GPL v2 and later.
That's not a problem, because GPL v2 alone includes (via either option in section 9) later versions. "GPL v2 alone" excludes other licenses (such as BSD) and might exclude GPL v1. If you tried to submit a patch with a copyright that claimed "this patch may not be distributed under versions of the GPL later than version 2", then your patch couldn't be incorporated, because you've included a restriction which conflicts every optin in one of the terms of GPL v2. -- Raul
