GPL compliance

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 10:50 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> gain, very low risk,
> but it confirms my long-standing distaste for "or later" clauses.

[I have cc'ed sounder, please let's continue there ]

Except that the GPL says this:

---
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
---

When it says "you" it is talking not to the copyright holder, but to the
licensee. Therefore when a GPLv3 comes out, the licensee can always fork
off the last GPLv2 version, even if the maintainer accepts new code only
in GPLv3.