On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
In other words: the _default_ license strategy is always just the particular version of the GPL that accompanies a project. If you want to license a program under _any_ later version of the GPL, you have to state so explicitly. Linux never did.
That's not what section 9 seems to say. The default is "any version you like".
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