Gabriel Ebner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:42:23PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: >> Putting "GPLv2 or later" headers on all the files would not require >> seeking the permission of anyone. No file has been restricted to "GPLv2 >> only" by a header, > > Copyright usually works the other way round. You retain all rights, including > modification, sublicensing, etc., until you explicitly give a permission to do > that.
Quite right. And JOSM is currently under the GPL without specifying a version number, as I have argued in my previous post. That means that "GPLv2 or later" is actually a restriction, not an expansion of the current situation. >> and the GPL says that if no version number is >> specified, then any can be used. Adding headers like that would make >> things much more clear. > > Do you have any sources on that? My copy of the GPLv2 only explains what an > "or later" clause is supposed to mean (article 9), not that it is supposed to > hold "by default". It says "if a version number is not specified, any version can be used", and I explained in my previous message why a version number has not been specified. Gerv _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/josm-dev
