[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] licenses: GPL permutations

[Timm Preetz]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 14:53 -0400, Loui wrote:
> 
> > Loui <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > GPL2 "or, at your opinion, any later version" is not the same as
> GPL2
> > > > only + GPL3 or later. ;)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can you explain why they are not the same? I don't quite
> > > understand why that doesn't work. Thanks.
> > >
> >
> http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Compatible_licenses#GPLv3-incompatible_licenses
> 
> Your link doesn't do anything to explain why (GPL2 or later, GPL3)
> is practically any different than (GPL2, GPL3)
> 
> Am I missing anything? Please let me know.

I think, what Roman states (and what is right as far as I know), is that
(GPL2+) != (GPL2, GPL3+).

That's all I guess.