* Arnaud Charlet:

>> Eh, this exception doesn't change that the GPLv2 program perceives the
>> GPLv3 as incompatible.  Why would it?
>
> Is it GPLv2 or GPLv2+?

GPLv2 (I tried to stress by writing "GPLv2-only").

> If the latter (the license includes something like "either version 2
> of the License, or (at your option) any later version"), then
> nothing prevents you from distributing the program under GPLv3+
> instead of GPLv2+.

Right, but we've got some stuff which is GPLv2-only, such as Git,
OpenOffice, OpenJDK, etc.

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