On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
Is this intentional?
No. Because the grant of licence DOES allow regrading, therefore what
any particular version of the GPL says is irrelevant. The recipient CAN
change the licence from GPL3 to GPL2 (or vice versa) because the *grant*
(Summary of the thread for Joey's benefit: some software mentioned on
debian-legal had a one-line license which was intended to be
almost-public-domain, but failed to give explicit permission to copy and
modify. Franck is talking to that software's author to get it relicensed in
a DFSG way; I
Simon McVittie wrote:
Not that I know of; judging by putting this wording into Google, only Joey
uses it. I called it the ikiwiki basewiki license above, but I don't think
that's necessarily a good way to refer to it out of context. The rest of
ikiwiki is not under this license (it's mostly
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