Excerpts from Roberto Alsina's message of 2010-08-26 13:16:05 +0200: > On Thursday 26 August 2010 08:12:23 Ronald van Haren wrote: > > My second point was that we don't know what the future will bring. > > Will new applications being licensed under GPL2 or later, GPL3 or > > later, GPL4, GPL4 or later... there are lots of options. There are > > lots of possibilities and I'm wondering if it is at all feasible to > > create a naming scheme which will fit all. > > Sure: > > GPL2 > GPL2+ > GPL3 > GPL3+ > etc.
That's what I'd be in favor of. I'm not sure the '+' is the best way, because it has other meanings than 'any later' as well. > For convenience, you may want to make GPL the equivalent of GPL2+ I think that's not convenient but confusing. -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
