Re: website draft 9

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:30:14PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> >> GPL page: should the page mention that Lilypond is released under GPLv2
> >> or later?
> > 
> > It's not; lilypond is currently GPLv2.
> 
> The copyright notice in my installed version of Lilypond (2.12 from the
> package in Ubuntu Karmic) says 'GPLv2 or (at your option) any later
> version'.

Sounds like a mistake in the packaging.  COPYING in the source
tree says GPLv2.

> Has there been a change of policy on this ... ?  (... and
> isn't there some kind of preference/pressure for GNU projects to either
> upgrade to GPLv3 or at least have licensing compatible with it?)

Please see the previous lengthy discussions on -devel before
asking more questions.

Cheers,
- Graham