> > The fact that the licenses are COMPATIBLE doesn't make them IDENTICAL. > > FSF wants "GPLv3 or later" and it's not at all clear to me that we could > > change the license of code that's not copyright assigned to FSF to that > > license (we can for code that HAS been assigned). > > Ah, but the GPL v2 grants us that right.
I disagree. The copyright holder has decided that they want people to (among other things) allow people to distribute under GPLv2. We can't take that away without the permission of that holder.