Hakre's GPL license debate

[Ryan]

I'll go with "misunderstanding on my .. part" then :)

[hakre]

My impression has always been that WordPress was GPLv2 and had excluded the any later version part. That is what we've been "told" thats what I've conditioned my brain to know.

This remembers me of some similar statements that were wrongly saying that "Wordpress is licensed under GPL v2" in some WP Mailinglist. Quite promintent but I'm not able to look them up right now.

That might have created such a misunderstanding. The most prominent example I know of is the wikipedia page about wordpress btw, so it looks like the inaccuracy is quite common, especially if you see the footnote there.