Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What rights from the GPL are being restricted by using a specific > > version of it? > > The right to use other versions of the GPL.
Have you considered the consequences of your weird legal theory? Presumably the Linux kernel would be undistributable because it contains both "GPL 2" and "GPL >=2" code. Also, the main reason for the "or any later version" stuff would disappear. The purpose of this is to allow the FSF to correct bugs in the GPL. If projects licensed under "GPL >=2" had to be licensed under "GPL >=2" forever then it would not be possible to upgrade them to GPL 3 by licensing new code under "GPL >=3". Fortunately your interpretation of the GPL is not the standard one and seems rather difficult to justify.
