Re: website draft 9

[Carl Sorensen]

On 9/7/09 3:37 PM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:30:14PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>> Graham Percival wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>>>> GPL page: should the page mention that Lilypond is released under GPLv2
>>>> or later?
>>> 
>>> It's not; lilypond is currently GPLv2.
>> 
>> The copyright notice in my installed version of Lilypond (2.12 from the
>> package in Ubuntu Karmic) says 'GPLv2 or (at your option) any later
>> version'.
> 
> Sounds like a mistake in the packaging.  COPYING in the source
> tree says GPLv2.

But GPL v2 has as part of its text "or (at your option) any later version'."

see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt>

at least if I understand it correctly.

Carl