If Bruce Perens has any influence on the future direction of the GPL, and if what he told you turns out to have been a goal and not an interesting side-effect, and if the articel that started all is a valid indication of what's under discussion -- lots of ifs there, I know -- I may have to agree with opponents of the FSF that the goal really is that all software should be free. Not Free, free.

It is uncomfortably easy to see a plan in the long-standing recommendation that people include the "or any future version" language when releasing under GPL. The charitable view is that a project may start out when there is only V1, and another project under V2, and the projects are merged. The only way to do this without expressed consent from all contributors is if the V1 project included the "or any future version" clause.