What is GPL+ license?

[andrew ronchi]

I have to prepare 3rd party licensing doc. We are using one rpm which comes under GPL+ license. But I am not getting any information for this license. One reference is found which says GPL+ means any version GPL if version not mentioned. But I did not understand.

[Henry Wong]

andrew ronchi wrote:I have to prepare 3rd party licensing doc. We are using one rpm which comes under GPL+ license. But I am not getting any information for this license. One reference is found which says GPL+ means any version GPL if version not mentioned. But I did not understand.

I never heard of a GPL+ license, but GNU does have a GPL license (and the newer LGPL license). In general, product companies don't like to include any software in their product that has a GPL license, as the strong copyleft requirement exposes any proprietary software.

Henry

[andrew ronchi]

Then could you please help in finding license for this rpm-"redhat-rpm-config-9. .0.3-42.el6.centos.noarch.rpm"? what I got from the following link is GPL+.

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/centos/6.5/x86_64/Packages/redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-42.el6.centos.noarch.html

[Maneesh Godbole]

Crossposted http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25503457/what-is-gpl-license
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[andrew ronchi]

Thank you Maneesh for pointing me out. I have posted same question on stackoverflow.com to get answers quickly.

[Ulf Dittmer]

I would assume that "GPL+" refers to a clause that's generally part of the various GPL licenses, namely that -at the discretion of the user- instead of the license version in effect when the software was released, any newer version of the same license can be applied. So if it was originally licensed under the original GPL (i.e., version 1), GPL version 2 can also be used.