This is nitpicking. The original files are released under the GPL v2 terms.
That licence cannot be revocated by anyone, not even by the author, though he
may choose to re-release the files with another licence. The terms of the
unmodified GPL v2 allow the relicencing by 3rd parties with subsequent licences
from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html :
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This does not supercede the original license, it effectively means a fork under
a new licence. The GPL v2 on the original remains in effect, but changes on the
GPLv3 versions would be covered by the GPLv3 terms.
Alessandro
> From: e...@ehofman.com
> To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:54:40 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is FlightGear GPL2 and later or GPL2 only?
>
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 14:35 +0200, kreuzritter2000 wrote:
> > No the base package belongs to the FG community and you commited your
> > work under their "GPLv2 or later" conditions.
> >
> > If the FG community decides to switch to GPLv3 one day, the community
> > can do this without asking you for permission.
>
> Incorrect, the copyright still belongs to me. GPL2 just makes it easier.
>
> Erik
>
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