From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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To: | Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> | ||
Cc: | gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, licenses <licenses@g.o> | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing | ||
Date: | Sat, 21 Sep 2019 23:46:12 | ||
Message-Id: | w6gtv95nrgl.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing by Matt Turner |
1 | >>>>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, Matt Turner wrote: |
2 | |
3 | > An idea to consider: use SPDX license identifiers (see |
4 | > https://spdx.org/licenses/) |
5 | |
6 | > For GPL 2 they are "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0-or-later" |
7 | |
8 | Yeah, they have a history of using silly names. What does 2.0 mean? |
9 | There is no such version of the GPL, and with Gentoo versioning rules, |
10 | 2 is not equal to 2.0. |
11 | |
12 | Another funny thing is that they first introduced a "+" operator, but |
13 | then decided not to use it for the GPL family, but append "-or-later" |
14 | instead. (And IIUC, "GPL-2.0-only+" is valid in their scheme and |
15 | equivalent to "GPL-2.0-or-later".) |
16 | |
17 | Ulrich |
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing | Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> |
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing | Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> |