[aur-general] Licenses, GPL3 only

[Roberto Alsina]

On Thursday 26 August 2010 08:25:06 Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Roberto Alsina's message of 2010-08-26 13:16:05 +0200:
> > On Thursday 26 August 2010 08:12:23 Ronald van Haren wrote:
> > > My second point was that we don't know what the future will bring.
> > > Will new applications being licensed under GPL2 or later, GPL3 or
> > > later, GPL4, GPL4 or later... there are lots of options. There are
> > > lots of possibilities and I'm wondering if it is at all feasible to
> > > create a naming scheme which will fit all.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Sure:
> > 
> >
> > GPL2
> > GPL2+
> > GPL3
> > GPL3+
> > etc.
> 
> That's what I'd be in favor of. I'm not sure the '+' is the best way,
> because it has other meanings than 'any later' as well.

I have not heard of something called GPL2+ before. What is it?

> > For convenience, you may want to make GPL the equivalent of GPL2+
> 
> I think that's not convenient but confusing.

Or you may not, of course ;-)