As GPL-2+ is not listed under DEP5 [0] licenses,
what’s the difference between GPL-2 and GPL-2+ found in some debian/copyright files?
Egon Willighagen
[ Editor ]
When people use the GNU Public license they often choose to allow a particular version or higher, for example, version “2.0 or higher”. That gives everyone the freedom to choose the GPL 3.0 at any time. Other developers do not trust the GNU enough with future licenses to restrict it to a particular version.
As such, there is no actual GPL-2+ license, but it’s a copyright statement the GPL2 applies, or any newer version of the GPL license.
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Jeremiah C. Foster
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Exactly. GPL v2+ means either the GPL v2 or a later version chosen at your convenience.