Re: Fix the reducelcs license

[Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>]

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"ng0" <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> No it’s the opposite.
>>
>> Specifically, from Section 14 of GPLv3:
>>
>>   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.
>>
>> In Guix we encode this as ‘gpl3+’.
>>
>> So the rule is: always put ‘+’ unless the source code headers or some
>> other prominent file restricts to a specific version of the license.
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> Ah, thanks for the explanation. I will save this somewhere.
>
> So the patch I've sent preceding this small discussion should
> still be applied.

Fixed up and applied as c000b6b10ff06cc18f3e46b64d55a0e555628837.

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