On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> Georg S. Weber wrote:
>>
>> "... either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
>> version ..."
>
> Someone reviewed something I wrote for Sage, which I'd marked as GPL 2. They
> wanted added "or (at your option) any later version".
>
> Personally I can't see the point of this. It is stated in the GPL 2 that
> people can use a later version if they wish, so why is it necessary to state


Very interesting! I didn't know that.
This is in section 9 of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt


> it in source code?
>
>
> dave
>
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