Re: [aur-general] Licenses, GPL3 only

On Mon 23 Aug 2010 12:03 +0200, Philipp wrote:

Hi, I just looked up the GPL notation again. Here's the relevant excerpt from the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards

.. The (L)GPL has many versions and permutations of those versions. For (L)GPL software, the convention is:

* (L)GPL - (L)GPLv2 or any later version * (L)GPL2 - (L)GPL2 only * (L)GPL3 - (L)GPL3 or any later version

Now besides that this is obviously confusing there's another problem. How would you specify that a program is GPL3 only?

Here's my proposed scheme: GPL = Any GPL license GPL1 = GPL1 only GPL2 = GPL2 only GPL3 = GPL3 only If you want to use 2 and 3, just list them both in the licenses array. Future proof.