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		pantalaimon 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice... GPLv2 by default means GPLv2 or later, so GPLv3 is perfectly valid indeed.

mmx1 3 months ago [–]

That's actually not true. GPLv2 by default means v2, not v3, unless you explicitly allow "or later."

Linux is actually the famed example of v2 but not v3.

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