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

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

    >    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.

You clearly do not undertstand the GPL,

       b. You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that
          in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program
          or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge
          to all third parties under the terms of this License.


`or later' is part of the license terms, much like a the clauses of
Bison that allow people to use the output in non-free software.