Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Is is allowed to replace GPL2+ license notices?

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:03:36PM +0100, Sebastian Gerhardt wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> sometimes they are projects that are licensed as a whole under GPL3+ but
> contain some single files written by other authors under GPL2+.
> 
> The new maintainer is entitled to redistribute all files under GPL3+,
> but is it legal and lawful for him to simply replace the old GPL2+
> notice with the GPL3+ as to improve consistency? Or must they be
> preserved?

To me it's legal.

You distribute version 1.2.3 of your software under:
- GPLv2
or
- later versions
(at your option)

So you can distribute version 1.2.3 of your software under:
- later versions

So you can distribute version 1.2.4 of your software under:
- later versions

So you can distribute version 1.2.4 of your software under:
- GPLv3
or
- later versions
(at your option)

:)

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Sylvain