Stating “licensed under GPL” (sans version) implies the current version. Unless rights are radically different under various versions, or the software has non-GPL issues, the GPL version number is not significant enough to cause real confusion. This seems much ado about nothing… as is “snow in Paris”.
Mark Jaquith has a stunning knack of dealing with situations in a helpful and non-confrontational manner. I have a vision in my head of other people posting exactly the same thing, but all hell breaking loose in the comments.
I had no idea it was possible to switch between license versions like that so easily. That’s good to know for future use.
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Stating “licensed under GPL” (sans version) implies the current version. Unless rights are radically different under various versions, or the software has non-GPL issues, the GPL version number is not significant enough to cause real confusion. This seems much ado about nothing… as is “snow in Paris”.
Mark Jaquith has a stunning knack of dealing with situations in a helpful and non-confrontational manner. I have a vision in my head of other people posting exactly the same thing, but all hell breaking loose in the comments.
I had no idea it was possible to switch between license versions like that so easily. That’s good to know for future use.
is wordpress an open source
Yep, 100% open source, “GPL version 2 or later.”
Precisely spoken, that is not entirely correct.
WordPress 3.0.5 / 3.1 _will_ be “GPL version 2 or later”.
Every other WordPress version until today incl. the current 3.0.4 one is licensed under GPL not version restricted.
But be warned that the package might be violating other persons licenses, copyright and other rights. So better check twice.