Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 03/09/2009 23:10, Mounir Lamouri a écrit : >> Duncan wrote: >>> Sebastian Pipping posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:49 +0200 as >>> excerpted: >>> >>> >>>> However I do notice that "GPL-2+" could make things easier. Why not >>>> introduce a license group for it like @GPL-2+ or so, instead? That >>>> would >>>> be transparent and use existing means. >>>> >>> >>> I've always thought Gentoo needed "plus" versions of the versioned >>> licenses, anyway. GPL-2, GPL-2+, GPL-3, and GPL-3+, should all be >>> different licenses, because really, they are. >>> >> AFAIK, GPL-2 and GPL-2+ are not different, may you tell me more about >> that ? > > GPL-2+ means "GPL-2 GPL-3 GPL-4 ..." > > Not quite the same thing as just "GPL-2" But the content of the license is the same. That only means you can use a newer one. I mean we do not need a new license file for that. It's up to upstream to write somewhere if it's GPL-2 or GPL-2+, am I right ?
-- Mounir
