[arch-dev-public] licenses: GPL permutations
Paul Mattal
paul at mattal.com
Sun Mar 30 10:24:29 EDT 2008
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
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