On 28-Oct-2006, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > Am Samstag, dem 28. Okt 2006 schrieb Ben Finney: > > I recall, but don't know a reference to, an occurence of projects > > being rejected by Savannah for licensing the work as "GPL version > > 2". Apparently the project was rejected because they didn't have > > "or later" in the license grant. > > As far as I remember it was the omission of the "or later" clause > that caused the trouble. > > They try to make sure, that the projects on Savannah stay compatible > to each other. The omission of the "or later" clause can cause big > troubles to compatiblity with projects licensed under later versions > in the future. > > for their official policy see: > http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php
Thanks, this is useful to know for those considering which service to use for hosting their free software projects. -- \ "Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do." | `\ -- Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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