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From: ccplumb@spurge.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Which GPL applies?
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Date: 15 Oct 90 19:38:26 GMT
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From watmath.waterloo.edu:gnu/gcc-1.37.1/COPYING:

>   7. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
> of the General Public License from time to time.  Such new versions will
> be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
> address new problems or concerns.

> Each version is given a distinguishing version number.  If the Program
> specifies a version number of the license which applies to it and "any
> later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
> either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
> Software Foundation.  If the Program does not specify a version number of
> the license, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
> Foundation.

This is the new "subroutinized" GPL, version 1 (February, 1989).
Does that address your concerns?
-- 
	-Colin