On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:18:17 +0400, Stas Sergeev <s...@list.ru> wrote:
> 21.07.2013 15:24, Stephen Kitt пишет:
> > Basically you can have one license for a project as a whole, which doesn't
> > necessarily match the licenses used in individual sources files,
> A correction: it _does_ match the individual source files... some
> of them. There are multiple licenses applied, "GPLv2 or later" is
> among them, and always was.

Yep, I was speaking generally: any project can have once license for itself
as a whole, etc.

> > IANAL and all the rest, but as I understand it it could be useful for you
> > to change the project license, since that would reduce the "risk" of new
> > code being submitted under GPLv2-only, but you won't be able to add GPLv3
> > code until all the GPLv2-only code has been relicensed or rewritten.
> Yes, that's exactly what I've done: marked all the old files as
> "GPLv2 only", changed the "default" (ie the license for new code)
> to "GPLv2 or later" and am expecting this to reduce the risk of
> having more of the "GPLv2 only" code in.

Indeed. My main point was that you can't add GPLv3 code to the mix as long as
there is GPLv2-only code.

Regards,

Stephen

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