"Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig.Obriain at Sun.COM> wrote:
> The attached patch modifies the copyright for Auth-PAM.
> For the avoidance of doubt, except that if any license choice other
> than GPL or LGPL is available it will apply instead, Sun elects to
> use only the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) at this time
> for any software where a choice of GPL license versions is made
> available with the language indicating that GPLv2 or any later
> version may be used, or where a choice of which version of the GPL
> is applied is otherwise unspecified.
Please note that this kind of text does not prevent the end user
from making a different choice.
It only may help to clear up things in case that a "Sun distribution"
might be "illegal" in case that GPLv2 is selected.
J?rg
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