> This clause, however, is the legal permission to relicense to a later
> version of GPL by any contributor. People who have made contributations
> know that their copyrighted material may be found under a different
> license, namely GPL 3 or GPL 4 or so on, so we can legally change the
> license to GPL v3 without them.
Yes, and according to Cyrille, this clause itself is illegal and thus null in
most European jurisdictions. I'm no layer so I can't check this statement.
Steph
Everyone I talk to disagrees. Plus, GNU does have international lawyers, and those lawyers advocate using that statement in order to avoid this problem