<div dir="ltr">"GPLv2 or later" means that a downstream derivative may release under GPLv2 or GPLv3.<div><br></div><div>In this case, since Bootstrap is licensed under Apache 2.0, which is compatible with GPLv3 but *not* compatible with GPLv2, the Theme itself must be GPLv3 (explicitly), rather than the more permissive/ambiguous "GPLv2 or later".</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Regards,</div><div style><br></div><div style>Chip</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Kirk Wight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca" target="_blank">kwight@kwight.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I'm reviewing a theme that includes Twitter Bootstrap, which I understand would require licensing the theme as GPL v3. Style.css gives the license as "GNU General Public License v2 or later".</div>
<div><br></div><div>What does that even mean? I know none of us are lawyers, but because of the Bootstrap inclusion, should we require the GPL v3 license? And can you even start with "v2 or later" and then specify v3?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Oy, licensing...</div>
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