Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch moves to GPL v3 or later

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Alfred M. Szmidt writes:

 >    Wrong.  At present, Arch can incorporate Linux code, and vice versa,
 > 
 > No, not at all, the license conditions for arch are _or_later_, these
 > are terms different than those for Linux, so you _CANNOT_ incoperate
 > changes from Arch into Linux.  The GPL states that the license terms
 > must be the same, since they are not, the two licenses are not
 > compatible.  

You're confusing the permissions notice, which allows a disjunction of
template licenses, with the template licenses themselves, each of
which individually must remain unchanged.  The "or later" phrasing is
simply a compact way to express what legally is a multiple license,
akin to the GPL+FDL licensing recommended by the FSF for code examples
in documentation.