From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: License auditing Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 22:42:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87poppy47o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160803180342.GA11621@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39523) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bV2zk-000491-Fh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:42:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bV2zg-0000fb-9T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:42:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160803180342.GA11621@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:03:42 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel , David Craven Howdy! Leo Famulari skribis: > I've heard that if the only license information is a copy of the full > license (for example, in LICENSE or COPYING) and the files have no > license headers, then the "or later" part is implied, but I'm not sure. In reality, the GNU licenses permit the recipient to choose any version of the license. For instance, Section 14 of GPLv3 reads: If the Program does not specify a version number of the GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. However, in Guix we encode such cases as =E2=80=98gpl3+=E2=80=99 (or simila= r), rather than =E2=80=98gpl1+=E2=80=99. Ludo=E2=80=99.