On 9/7/09 3:37 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:30:14PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>> Graham Percival wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>>>> GPL page: should the page mention that Lilypond is released under GPLv2
>>>> or later?
>>>
>>> It's not; lilypond is currently GPLv2.
>>
>> The copyright notice in my installed version of Lilypond (2.12 from the
>> package in Ubuntu Karmic) says 'GPLv2 or (at your option) any later
>> version'.
>
> Sounds like a mistake in the packaging. COPYING in the source
> tree says GPLv2.
But GPL v2 has as part of its text "or (at your option) any later version'."
see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt>
at least if I understand it correctly.
Carl
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