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Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4
* Arnaud Charlet:
>> Eh, this exception doesn't change that the GPLv2 program perceives the
>> GPLv3 as incompatible. Why would it?
>
> Is it GPLv2 or GPLv2+?
GPLv2 (I tried to stress by writing "GPLv2-only").
> If the latter (the license includes something like "either version 2
> of the License, or (at your option) any later version"), then
> nothing prevents you from distributing the program under GPLv3+
> instead of GPLv2+.
Right, but we've got some stuff which is GPLv2-only, such as Git,
OpenOffice, OpenJDK, etc.