Ximin Luo <infini...@gmx.com> writes: > GPL2+ is not a license, it is a license specification - a description of > what licenses apply to the materials in question, just like the string > "GPL or BSD". FSF publishes no such license called "GPL2+".
I think Jakub is right: it's a different license. GPL-2 allows you to publish your changes under exactly the GPL version 2. GPL-2+ allows you to publish your changes under the GPL version 2 or any later version. The two licenses grant you *different rights*, and hence are different licenses, just as if one of them said that you had to publish a copyright notice and the other one didn't. One of them allows you to relicense; the other one doesn't. Also, from the ftpmaster perspective, ftpmaster wants the actual text of the upstream license included in the copyright file, and if there are multiple different texts, there should all appear. > I'll bring this up with debian-policy as well. With my Policy hat on, I'd tell you the same thing, but we can certainly discuss that there if you think my analysis is wrong. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
