Support "or later" variants for [L]GPL licenses about licen

[lord63]

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you said.
Something with the license template? I get all of them from http://choosealicense.com

[lbeltrame]

In data lunedì 23 marzo 2015 16:21:03, lord63 ha scritto:

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you said.
Something with the license template? I get all of them from

Yes, for example, from my own software (GPL 3):

-- snip --

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 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

-- snip --

The "at your option" is optional, but it makes quite a difference from a
licensing point of view.

[lord63]

@lbeltrame
Hi, I diffed your license with the template from choosealicense, it seems thats except the 'http://fsf.org/' link and some tiny difference, they are the same.
I still feel a bit puzzled, may be you can submit a pull request :)

[lbeltrame]

In data mercoledì 25 marzo 2015 06:36:12, lord63 ha scritto:

thats except the 'http://fsf.org/' link and some tiny difference, they
are the same. I still feel a bit puzzled, may be you can submit a pull
request :)

The difference is only in "or later part":

For example, let's imagine a program licensed under GPL v2 "or later" (as
written)

• if "or later" is there → I can license it as GPL v2, or v3, or whatever
  comes out next, even if I'm not the original author (because the license
  grants me this option)
• if there isn't → I can only use v2, anything else requires approval from the
  original author (major example in the wild: the Linux kernel)

So what I'm suggesting is to have a text with "or...blablabla any later
version" and one without it, and make options like "gplv3+" or "gplv3" and so
on.

[lord63]

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.

There is also a 'later part' in the template boilerplate notice from licen. Check it out

So what I'm suggesting is to have a text with "or...blablabla any later version" and one without it, and make options like "gplv3+" or "gplv3" and so on.

Do you mean two seperate license template?

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All the license templates are come from choosealicense, I think we can rely on it. Any thoughts?

[lbeltrame]

In data venerd� 27 marzo 2015 20:03:31, lord63 ha scritto:
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Do you mean two seperate license template?

Exactly that.

[lord63]

I'm sorry, this may won't fix.
Currently I think one is enough, if you really want it, I'm afraid that you have to add your own template manually.
Thanks for you advice!