* 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.