[Fedora-packaging] Licensing guidelines suggestions

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 09:48 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:33 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> > I presume, though it's not explicitly stated, that GPL+ can also be used 
> > where the license is explicitly given as "GPL version 1 or later" (e.g. 
> > for perl and all same-as-perl licensed modules)?
> 
> Yes, this correct.
> 
> > Similarly, I take LGPL+ to be suitable for packages licensed as "LGPL v2 
> > (not 2.1) or later" as well as for LGPL of unspecified version?
> 
> Not quite:
> 
> LGPL+ is only for unversioned LGPL (I've never seen this, but it's
> possible).
> LGPLv2+ is for LGPL 2/2.1 or later.
> 

Can you explain the difference, considering there is no version 1 of the
LGPL ?