maxima license clarification: "GPLv2" or "GPLv2 or later" or ??

Andrej Vodopivec writes:
> As I see it the main problem we could have is that GPL2 and GPL3 are
> not compatible licenses. The windows binary includes some programs and
> header files from gcc - if gcc becomes GPL3 (very likely), then this
> could cause problems. I think this is something we should think about.
> 

Actually gcl 2.6.8pre which requires some selected gcc
binaries and headers make use of some ancient gcc version,
namely gcc 3.3.1.  As far as I understand license of this old
release can not be changed to GPL3.  At it is quite improbable
that gcl on Windows will change gcc version in nearest future.
On the other hand it is quite probable that Windows Maxima
will switch to sbcl soon.

Vadim Zh


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