[arch-dev-public] licenses: GPL permutations

[Paul Mattal]

Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 10:24 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:
>> Roman Kyrylych wrote:
>>> This issue was discussed in past
>>> (I'm lazy to search for exact thread(s), sorry).
>>> The current scheme is:
>>> GPL - GPLv2 "or, at your opinion, any later version"
>>> GPL2 - GPL2 only (e.g. Linux kernel)
>>> GPL3 - GPL3 "or, at your opinion, any later version"
>>> I don't know of a single project with GPLv1 or GPLv3-only license.
>>>
>> Thanks for the info. I've updated the Arch Packaging Standards to 
>> reflect that convention. If anyone disagrees, please chime in.
>>
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards
>>
>> - P
>>
> 
> This is also valid for LGPL, as there's a v3 version of that also now.

Thanks, Jan. I've updated the Packaging Standards page to reflect 
that, too.

- P

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Arch_Packaging_Standards&diff=39485&oldid=39389