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Brad, Curtis,
The GPLvFOO offers the option of licensing under version FOO "or any later version as published by the Free Software Foundation". It's an option only: some projects choose to license under version FOO and leave off the "or any later version", other projects include those words.
Thus there are, in effect, four different licenses here:
GPLv2
GPLv2 or any later version
GPLv3
GPLv3 or any later version
Right now, we only offer two of those licenses. James is suggesting we offer all four.
Looking ahead: this means that any time a new GPL comes out, Launchpad would add *two* new licenses: "GPLv[new version]" and "GPLv[new version] or any later version".