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Bruce Perens: State of Open SourceBruce Perens: State of Open SourcePosted Apr 10, 2006 18:44 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)In reply to: Bruce Perens: State of Open Source by BrucePerens Parent article: Bruce Perens: State of Open Source
I'm not sure that you can get a functionally useful "repair" through the "or later version" clause, because it never takes away the "GPLvX or" part. That is, that language allows a downstream recipient to apply the terms of any license included, so the repair could not override the version that had the problem.
On the other hand, that same fact vitiates the concern I expressed, since licensing something as GPLv2 or later always allows the more liberal terms of GPLv2 to be used as well as the more restrictive terms of a later version (assuming some later version is more restrictive, as the first draft of GPLv2 is). I had failed to think that through.
So, using the "or later version" language would be a problem if you objected to some later version making the terms more liberal, but not if you objected to some later version making the terms more restrictive.
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