[arch-dev-public] licenses: GPL permutations

[Jan de Groot]

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.