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Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
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On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 11:51, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > v2 or later. The GPL only permits "any version" or "n or later".

> This implicitely says that if the version of the GPL is specified it's 
> fixed.

It says you may use "this or any later version" or you may not specify.
It doesn't permit you to specify "this version alone". See the no
additional restrictions clause