One of the unpleasant things about system administration is how it canturn me into a petty authoritarian, full of irritation with users thathave the temerity to 'break the rules' and not follow directions, evenif (or especially if) the rules are themselves impositions from outsidethat I myself dislike and object to. Instead of cheering on the users, Ibecome angry with them, apparently merely because they have the temerityto not do what I told them to. In some dark place in my mind, people not

While is only one GPL v2 license, there are effectively two versions ofthe GPL v2 that programs are licensed under: programs licensed under theGPL v2 (only), and programs licensed under 'GPL v2 or (at your option)any later version', depending on the license verbiage that the programitself uses. The FSF encourages the 'GPL v2 or any later version' one,but some people have not been so open ended.

When there was only one GPL license in common