Re: gplv3 files and updates

[Simon Josefsson]

"James Youngman" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Maybe we should have doc/COPYINGv2 and doc/COPYINGv3 (ditto
>> COPYING.LESSER) in gnulib, with no doc/COPYING at all, so the choice is
>> explicit?  Other ideas?
>
> That seems reasonable to me at first.  Projects which include gnulib
> code will need to slect one or the other because mixing the two is not
> possible, AIUI.

As far as I understand, mixing code licensed under GPLv3 with code
licensed under "GPLv2 or later" (which is what the GPL'ed code in gnulib
is today, I believe) should be fine, and results in that the GPLv3
applies to all of the code.

Thus, some projects may need to include a copy of both licenses, until
or unless all GPLv2+ is changed into GPLv3.

/Simon