On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > >>>>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, Matt Turner wrote: > > > An idea to consider: use SPDX license identifiers (see > > https://spdx.org/licenses/) > > > For GPL 2 they are "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0-or-later" > > Yeah, they have a history of using silly names. What does 2.0 mean? > There is no such version of the GPL, and with Gentoo versioning rules, > 2 is not equal to 2.0. > > Another funny thing is that they first introduced a "+" operator, but > then decided not to use it for the GPL family, but append "-or-later" > instead. (And IIUC, "GPL-2.0-only+" is valid in their scheme and > equivalent to "GPL-2.0-or-later".)
Yes, from the page I cited it seems that they decided that differentiating with only a '+' character was a bad idea -- the exact thing Michał is suggesting we stop doing. > Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more explicit > Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later version" option > specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used Identifiers for > those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0.
