On 28-Oct-2006, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
Am Samstag, dem 28. Okt 2006 schrieb Ben Finney:
I recall, but don't know a reference to, an occurence of projects being rejected by Savannah for licensing the work as "GPL version 2". Apparently the project was rejected because they didn't have "or later" in the license grant.
As far as I remember it was the omission of the "or later" clause that caused the trouble.
They try to make sure, that the projects on Savannah stay compatible to each other. The omission of the "or later" clause can cause big troubles to compatiblity with projects licensed under later versions in the future.
for their official policy see: http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php
Thanks, this is useful to know for those considering which service to use for hosting their free software projects.