On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:42, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:18:51 +0100
>
> Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I know that I'm a bit late on this, but to me the "version 2 or
> > later" is a license by itself. Let's call it GPL-RENEW and let the
> > file have contents like:
> > "This package is licensed with the version x or later clause for the
> > GPL."
>
> This is effectively what Diego was proposing with the 'GPL-2+' name.

Except that a GPL-RENEW tag would be transparent over newer GPL releases too. 
Upstreams will likely release under gpl-3 and newer. My solution would handle 
it transparently.

Paul

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