No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

Posted Mar 22, 2006 21:43 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (guest, #19270)
In reply to: No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah by Arker
Parent article: No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

Well, they say "compatible with the GPL", not "compatible with GPLv3" or "compatible with all versions of the GPL". The language (on the New Project page) allowing use of any GPL-compatible license is pretty meaningless if the only thing they actually accept as GPL-compatible is "GPLv* and any later version".

If they have a policy of requiring the "or later" clause, they ought to say so up-front. It would be [very mildly] interesting to know whether there are any existing projects in Savannah that were licensed under a specific version.

[Note that I have no problem with them having such a restriction, if they choose. As noted, there are lots of other repositories available. It's just amusing to see them say that the GPLv2 isn't compatible with the GPL...].