On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 15:56 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 9/21/19 12:09 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having
> > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's
> > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'.
> > 
> 
> This works only until people start putting
> 
>   LICENSE="GPL-2-only"
> 
> for things that they haven't sufficiently verified.
> 
> If we want to let those people keep committing to the tree, then a
> specially-formatted comment might work just as well. It would be harder
> to QA (you'd have to parse the comment and associate it with the
> variable), but it would save us from having to rename the license every
> few years to catch mistakes.

Honestly, do you believe having the choice of 'GPL-2' and 'GPL-2-only'
people would choose the latter without actually checking the difference?
Because the way I see it, choosing the former is much more likely.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny