thoughts on Fluid licensing and GPL

[Joseph Scheuhammer]

Mara wrote:

> Moodle on GNU GPL v.2 (as far as I can tell).

Small point of clarification:  Moodle is licensed under "...either 
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."  See 
the end of the first paragraph of the "Copyright License for Moodle" 
section:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/License#Copyright_License_for_Moodle

According to the GPL FAQ, that means that if GPLv3 offers more 
permissions than GPLv2, then Moodle gets those permissions immediately.  
But, if GPLv3 has greater restrictions, Moodle can ignore those if it so 
chooses.  See:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#VersionTwoOrLater

Most importantly, in the context of this discussion, it means that 
Moodle's licence is compatible with GPLv3.

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