GNU's healthy now, and will soon be moreso [LWN.net]

GNU's healthy now, and will soon be moreso

Posted Sep 27, 2013 22:19 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: GNU's healthy now, and will soon be moreso by southey
Parent article: 30 years of GNU

You are not relicensing. You are distributing under the terms the copyright holders allowed you to distribute. Go read all the terms of the GPLv2 and v3 a couple of times and you'll get some illumination after some time.

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GNU's healthy now, and will soon be moreso

Posted Sep 27, 2013 22:33 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

I will clarify this a little bit:

When you say:

"You can redistribute this work (and derivatives) under the terms of the GPL, version 2 or later", then you are saying:

A. you can redistribute this work (and derivatives) under the terms of the GPLv2
B. OR you can redistribute this work (and derivatives) under the terms of the GPLv3
C. OR you can redistribute this work (and derivatives) under the terms of the GPLv3.1

and so on.

If you need to redistribute some work that is a derivative of both a GPLv2 work (terms under letter A, above) and a GPLv2+ work (A|B|C|...), you still have the option of distributing it under the terms of A. Likewise, if you need to redistribute some work that is a derivative of both a GPLv3+ work and a GPLv2+ work (B|C|... and A|B|C|... respectively) then you still have the option of distributing it under the terms of B|C|... etc etc.