[License-discuss] New maintainer, changing license?

Henrik Ingo henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi
Sat Jul 29 08:44:19 UTC 2017


My layman understanding is that that is exactly what it says.

On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Johnny A. Solbu <johnny at solbu.net> wrote:
> Hi.
> I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip
> The code licence is stated as follows:
>
> ==
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>  * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
>  * License, or (at your option) any later version.
> ==
> Some files are licenced under the Lesser GPL, with the same type of terms saying that one can use a later version.
>
> My question is: Does this mean that I can change it to say it's released under GPL version 3 and later?
>
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