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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

This pretty much is my take on it.  GPL2+ implies all later versions of
the GPL so I think we are covered.

On 3/14/2017 12:55 AM, José Ignacio wrote:
> GPL2+ Already includes GPL3+, i see no reason to change it up aside from
> preventing code reuse by other projects. The whole of KiCad as it is
> cannot be redistributed under
> anything other than GPL version 3 at the moment.
> 
> - Jose
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Cirilo Bernardo
> <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi folks,
> 
>      Since the source code is currently a mix of GPL2+ and GPL3+,
>     is there any advantage to getting agreement to change the text
>     to GPL3+? There are 154 files which I'm still sole author of, so
>     changing the text on those is trivial. Problems can come up if
>     it's not clear who the authors are or we can't get in touch with
>     one of the authors of a file.
> 
>     - Cirilo
> 
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