On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:32:38PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 09:35 +0200, Mark de Wever wrote: > > Hi, > > Um, all my code is under the standard GPL terms (ie. v2 or later), which > are indicated by the example in the COPYING file: > > ...either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version.
That part is beyond the terms and conditions of the license, but I've read enough discussions about it (on lkml). Personally, and I'm no laywer nor have I consulted one, I read the license as 'GPL 2 only unless explicitly stated otherwise'. I do know other people read it the license as 'GPL 2 or any later version unless explicitly stated GPL 2 only'. > Either I misunderstood the Wesnoth license or "v2 only" is a licensing > change. We had a few discussions on IRC since more people were wondering about the version. The end conclusion was that Wesnoth is 'GPL 2 only'. That's why I updated the file headers to make clear the files are 'GPL 2 only'. This was not intended to be a silent license change. That's why I also posted here to make clear the files are now clearly labeled 'GPL 2 only'. If you intended the files you authored to be licensed as 'GPL 2 or any later version' then I think those files should be labeled as such. I'm still not a laywer, but I think it should be possible to change the license of the files now since it was your orginal initial intent to license them 'GPL 2 or any later version'. Do you wish to update the files yourself or do you want me to update them? If you want me to do it, please give me a list of the files and the additional copyright info you want in them. Regards, Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew PS I don't have an opinion on the GPL 3 yet since I haven't taken the time yet to read it. _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
