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| From: | Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> | ||
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| To: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@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: | Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:45:45 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAEdQ38GDvfJHdnT4xek3udXZOgain_dEh5Ysw2i58gs5KmBGkQ@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing by Ulrich Mueller |
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| 1 | On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > >>>>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, Matt Turner wrote: |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > > An idea to consider: use SPDX license identifiers (see |
| 6 | > > https://spdx.org/licenses/) |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > > For GPL 2 they are "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0-or-later" |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > Yeah, they have a history of using silly names. What does 2.0 mean? |
| 11 | > There is no such version of the GPL, and with Gentoo versioning rules, |
| 12 | > 2 is not equal to 2.0. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Just responding because the absurdity of this angers me, to be honest. |
| 15 | See if you notice anything funny about the URL: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |