about licenses

[Rob Landley]

On Sunday 16 April 2006 7:33 pm, Tito wrote:
> hi,
> just one question:
> we are putting this license boiler plate on bb's file
>
> * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
>
> but it seems to me that "or later" is nonsense in this case.
> Wouldn't it be better without it?
>
> * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
>
> as we are licensing this exactly under GPL v2 and not
> a later version that as far as i can tell at the moment
> does not exist (GPL v3 ?!)
>
> Comments?
>
> Ciao,
> Tito

Putting "or later" in the boilerplate gives us the option to move to gplv3 if 
it turns out not to suck.

Rob
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