On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:07:35AM +0200, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic. Would you
> > please agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?
> >
> > The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be
> > important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3. If you
> > don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program
> > to GPL v3 would be to ask each and every copyright holder, and that
> > may be very difficult.
> 
> The problem is that I am only taking over this project from the former
> maintainers I don't own the copyright on the source myself. I agree
> that GPLv2-only is problematic, but since I am not the copyright owner
> I can't simply change it to GPLv2-or-later.

Ok. I'll approve your project.


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