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Re: License auditing
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: License auditing |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Aug 2016 22:42:19 +0200 |
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Howdy!
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> I've heard that if the only license information is a copy of the full
> license (for example, in LICENSE or COPYING) and the files have no
> license headers, then the "or later" part is implied, but I'm not sure.
In reality, the GNU licenses permit the recipient to choose any version
of the license. For instance, Section 14 of GPLv3 reads:
If the Program does not specify a version number of the GNU General
Public License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free
Software Foundation.
However, in Guix we encode such cases as ‘gpl3+’ (or similar), rather
than ‘gpl1+’.
Ludo’.