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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:12:00 -0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Doesn't version 3 fit the "version 2 or later" clause?

IANAL, but IMHO...

The old license allows us to *distribute* under newer terms.

It does not allow us to actually change the license.

I think this means that if we distribute a GPL2+ program to someone
under the terms of GPL3, the program itself is still under the terms
of GPL2+.