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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, licenses <licenses@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:43:44
Message-Id: CAEdQ38GAAnqB_-sFa2xigJ_BRtk8YkapAubjXNc3L7Bcpp1jQw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing by Jason Zaman
1 On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:42 PM Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:17:53PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 > > >>>>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having
7 > > > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's
8 > > > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'.
9 > >
10 > > This has been discussed before. There is no such license as GPL-2-only.
11 >
12 > Yes there is:
13 > https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html
14 > https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-or-later.html
15
16 Just so everything is clear: Ulrich is just making an extremely
17 pedantic point that the there's no version of the GPL-2 license itself
18 with the "only" in it. Strange, now that I think about it I don't
19 remember a "GPL-2+" license either...