Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling)]

Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If they add "or later" to their licensing statement their problem dissapears, 
> I've noticed that the top of the chart in gnu.orgs faq only
> has a column for GPLv3 or later and LGPLv3 or later. Omni's license is 
> LGPLv2.1 or later and it is included in the build of the ghostscript
> (GPLv3) package's ghostscript-omni, what do I put in the spec file under 
> License:, "GPLv3" or "LGPLv2.1 or later"

The problem is that the German law (and probably all European law systems as 
well) forbid you to sign a contract where you don't know the conditions at the
time you sign.

Any OSS project that includes German developers (and this affects most)
and that did not publish a new release _after_ GPLv3 did came out thus
cannot be put under GPLv3 - even if it claims "GPLv2 or any later".

Jörg

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