On Sun, 08 Sep 2024 at 09:49:39 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Is it really that valuable for us to have a delta here compared to what > upstream projects would use?
IMO: no. If (some) upstream projects are now taking copyright/license tracking in general (and machine-readable copyright/license specifically) more seriously than many did previously, we should take the win, rather than fighting it on the basis that we think our Debian-specific names are better. Perhaps our Debian-specific names *are* better, but the relevant question is whether they are *sufficiently* better to outweigh the benefit of sharing effort and specifications with the rest of the world (and I don't think they are). > As I understand it, we are at worst talking `GPL-2.0-only` / > `GPL-2.0-or-later` (SPDX) vs `GPL-2` / `GPL-2+` (DEP-5). That, and MIT (SPDX) vs Expat (DEP-5) for one particularly popular member of the MIT/X11 license family, as used in Expat and many other projects. smcv