Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, we can't pretend that "the GPL" is GPL-2 forever, so it would be a > bad idea to keep the GPL pointing to the old license. > The GPL is there for informative purposes only. Packages under GPLv2 or > later will still be under GPLv2 or later, and th

Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Russ Allbery: > > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> * Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070630 10:16]: > > > >>> But do we really want to license everything which is "GPL version 2 or > >>> later" under the GPL version 3? > > > >>> An

Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Russ Allbery: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070630 10:16]: > >>> But do we really want to license everything which is "GPL version 2 or >>> later" under the GPL version 3? > >>> And how do we discriminate between "GPL version 2 or later" and