On Nov 12, 12:27 am, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2010-11-11 17:21, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> > On Nov 11, 7:20 pm, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> >> On 2010-11-11 11:53, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>
> >>> The license must be a GPL version v2+ compatible license.
>
> >> Note that GPLv3 is NOT compaible with GPLv2!  I quote 
> >> fromhttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GNUGPL
>
> > but we talk about GPLv2+ (i.e. GPLv2 or a later version, as you
> > please)
>
> That's even worse in terms of compatibility (because then the licence
> must be compatible with GPLv2 and also with future versions of the GPL).
>  So if code is not compatible with GPLv2, it certainly will not be
> compatible with GPLv2+.

No. GPLv2+ - compatibility is a weaker requirement than the GPLv2 -
compatibility.
Just as x>=2 is weaker than x=2.


>
> This in fact raises a good point: if Sage contains code licenced under
> GPLv2 only, we cannot distribute it under GPLv2+!
>
> Jeroen.

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