Comment 6 for bug 324501
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| James Vasile (james.vasile) wrote Re: [Bug 324501] Re: License options should include "GPLv2 or later" and "GPLv3 or later" | #6 |
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Brad Crittenden wrote:
> Karl,
>
> Thanks for the more thorough explanation.
>
> Right now projects can choose a license and add additional information
> in the 'license info' text field. You can select "GNU GPL v3" and add
> "or later versions" to the license info. It will then appear on a
> project page as:
>
> Licenses: GNU GPL v3 (or later version)
>
> I'm hesitant for us to propagate more licenses but I do recognize the
> solution I've outlined is not obvious to users. Perhaps we can work on
> the UI a bit to make it so.
>
The problem with saying that users can just annotate the "or later" bit
is that, having done this, my project now says "This project's license
has not been reviewed" at the top of its main page. It's one thing to
offer flexibility. It's another to cast my perfectly commonplace choice
of GPlv3 or later as somehow suspect. The very first thing a user sees
when coming to my page is this line, even before seeing the description
of the project.