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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: 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 23:21:41
Message-Id: CAEdQ38F+K2QPHz1A-Rq21X4BQBVx2TrYGryA8A5A=SF44mq-xA@mail.gmail.com
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 Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 9:57 AM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 9:09 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 > > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having
5 > > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's
6 > > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'.
7 >
8 > I think that's a good idea.
9
10 An idea to consider: use SPDX license identifiers (see
11 https://spdx.org/licenses/)
12
13 For GPL 2 they are "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0-or-later"

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