updating the GPL's status in http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category ?

Mahesh T. Pai paivakil at yahoo.co.in
Wed Jan 20 13:39:57 UTC 2010


Dag-Erling Smørgrav said on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:53:27PM +0100,:

 > Individual contributors have released their code under "v2 or later", so
 > Linus is free to unilaterally upgrade Linux to "v3 or later".

This should be "Some individual contributors..."

Linus cannot unilaterally act on contributions which use the specific
version (of the GPL).

Did I miss something?

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