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OT -- Judge Easterbrook (apparently) mispeaks

Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 01:18 PM EDT

Actually, you can't.
I can take that v2+ distro, and add my own v3 code, and distribute the whole under v3.
What I can NOT do is change the licence on the existing code - if it's v2+ when I receive it, it STAYS v2+ when I pass it on.

The difference between what you say you can and can't do seems to depend on whether you have modified the source. That is, if I've added my own code, I can switch to v3. But I can't distribute v2+ code under v3 if I haven't modified the code. Have I got that right?

My reading of v2 doesn't agree with that. It says:

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.

So I don't see that modifying the code is necessary to distribute it under v3 rather than v2.

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OT -- Judge Easterbrook (apparently) mispeaks - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT
OT -- Judge Easterbrook (apparently) mispeaks - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:54 PM EDT

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