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		calpaterson on Nov 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alp... From GPL 2: > either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. "At your option" means that no one is 'subjected' to changes they don't want. They just have the option to upgrade.

akerl_ on Nov 16, 2018 [–]

Sure, but this thread is about licensing the software as "version $x or later", which pushes the choice to the user of the license.

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