[Savannah-hackers] [ 100336 ] test ignore

[nobody]

Support Request #100336, was updated on 2002-Jan-22 12:16
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Category: None
Status: Closed
Priority: 1
Summary: test ignore

By: gmorin
Date: 2002-Jan-22 12:16

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When you registered your project, you selected the license option
"GNU General
Public License V2 or later", but in your copyright.html page and
in the
copying permission statements of your programs I see that you
have excluded
the "V2 or later clause"

You are not doing anything wrong by restricting to
version 2 only of the GPL, and your software continues to be free
software. However, the FSF doesn't want to accept that license in
its hosts
because it would be compatible with GPL v2, but wouldn't be
compatible with
the next version. And this is something that the FSF wants to
discourage.
If you want to host your project in Savannah, you should change
your license
and either accept "GNU General Public License V2 or later" or any
of the other
GPL-compatible licenses and then register your project again.

Please keep in mind that if you decide to accept Savannah's
policy of "GPL V2
or later", if a version 3 comes out nobody in Savannah would go
and update
the license information of your project; it would continue to be
"GPL V2 or
later" if you wanted it that way and it would not cause any
conflicts for
Savannah. And if a user wants to abide by the rules of V2,
because he/she finds
it better than V3, they can choose to do that. The copying permission
statement gives them that option:
  "...you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version."



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By: gmorin
Date: 2002-Jan-22 12:16

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blabla

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