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Re: [opensuse-factory] licence status
- From: "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 21:21:55 -0600
- Message-id: <201102052121.55363.rmatov101@charter.net>
On Saturday, February 05, 2011 07:13:50 pm Dave Plater wrote:
GPL without version string, doesn't differ from GPLvX+ (GPL version X or
later).
As in software, and I suspect, as in law, it should refer to the latest valid
version.
(How good idea is to give someone else power to decide what is happening with
your software is another topic.
GPL versions are introduced to allow people to refer to particular set of
rules, not some unknown future version, so those that use GPLvX+ exclude
earlier, but still accept something that can develop in direction they don't
like.)
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Rajko
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AFAIK there's no such license as GPL anyway so rpmlint should fail on it.
GPL without version string, doesn't differ from GPLvX+ (GPL version X or
later).
As in software, and I suspect, as in law, it should refer to the latest valid
version.
(How good idea is to give someone else power to decide what is happening with
your software is another topic.
GPL versions are introduced to allow people to refer to particular set of
rules, not some unknown future version, so those that use GPLvX+ exclude
earlier, but still accept something that can develop in direction they don't
like.)
--
Regards,
Rajko
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