Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of ArX revision control system - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:22:22PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
> One last thing:
> 
> Rudy Gevaert <address@hidden> wrote:
> >     This program is free software; 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.
> 
> The files are licensed under version 2 only, not version 2 or later.
> Is that going to be a problem for inclusion into Savannah?

Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.
Would you please agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?

The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be
important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3.  If you
don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to
GPL v3 would be to ask each and every copyright holder, and that may
be very difficult.

We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish.  If you have
concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", We'd be happy to address them
too.

Of course if you aren't the original copyright owner it is no problem.

Rudy



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