On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:18:36PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote: > > The files with exceptions might not be compatible with GPLv3 by themselves > > Why? I thought GPLv2 and GPLv3 are "compatible".
They are not; each requires that the work as a whole be licensed the same as the individual file. However, we never had any GPLv2-only files. A GPLv2-or-any-later-version file is compatible with GPLv3.
