Licenses?

Posted Oct 12, 2011 22:13 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755)
In reply to: Licenses? by vonbrand
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

And FWIW, there's nothing saying an author could not later relicense their own code as GPLv4, if v3 changes they didn't approve of were rolled back...

Strictly speaking, you're supposed to distribute the code under the version of the license it came with, but if a sole developer later relicensed his code under a newer license, and you took the old package from a 3rd party under that newer license, I'd be hard pressed to see anyone give you crap about it...