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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>, contact.ng0@cryptolab.net
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix the reducelcs license
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:29:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k29byz01.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efzjl1ce.fsf@openmailbox.org>

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Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:

> contact.ng0@cryptolab.net writes:
>
>> If I am not wrong: When no "Version 3 only" is specified, it is always
>> "and later".
>
> Is there text in the GPL3 that says this? I was under the impression
> that the "or any later version" clause had to be specified
> explicitly. It doesn't help that there aren't any file headers to clear
> this up.

My understanding is that downstream users are free to use the "or later"
clause if nothing else is specified. Say, if you copy parts of GPL3 code
with no "or later" headers into your GPL3+ code.

So distros need to distinguish the cases that are explicitly not "or any
later version", but not impose other restrictions on the users.

If that makes sense. But IANAL etc..

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-31 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-31 11:32 Fix the reducelcs license contact.ng0
2017-01-31 11:32 ` [PATCH] gnu: reducelcs: Correct license contact.ng0
2017-01-31 15:02 ` Fix the reducelcs license Kei Kebreau
2017-01-31 16:29   ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-01-31 17:38     ` ng0
2017-02-01 22:18   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-01 23:56     ` ng0
2017-02-02  0:54       ` Kei Kebreau
2017-02-02 10:39       ` Hartmut Goebel

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