On Jul 14, 2016, at 4:23 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 13, 2016, at 8:43 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> On Jul 13, 2016, at 9:36 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> Or does simply stating “GPL” cover that already and that is why it has >>> always been that way? >> >> 'GPL' by itself means 'any version of the GPL' >> >> From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/old-licenses.html#GPL there >> appears to be no version of the GPL before version 1, so GPL and GPL-1+ are >> equivalent. > > Yes, we've been using "GPL" to mean "any version of GPL". However, it also > introduces some confusion when we're not sure whether the author meant "any > version of GPL" or "GPL but I didn't bother to check what version". We might > want to think about whether we should change how we do this. If we wrote > "GPL-1+" when we meant "any version of GPL" that confusion would be avoided.
I don't think it's useful to define a status for "it's unclear which version of a license this falls under". (what kind of decisions would we make based on that data?) In cases where it's ambiguous, it's a good idea for the maintainer to reach out to the author for clarification. -- Daniel J. Luke _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
