From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 669E9138239 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFB16E0867; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9389CE0856 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (c134-66.icpnet.pl [85.221.134.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9F0D34B41B; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44b0c3631c75dcd3aa9230d841796d6be79b7fef.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 21:59:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <52cf5a0b-4ff4-e238-fea2-7c07908e4ec5@gentoo.org> References: <52cf5a0b-4ff4-e238-fea2-7c07908e4ec5@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tk2ct/xhrlhpoRxMBPI6" User-Agent: Evolution 3.32.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: ca48d299-5180-45d0-aea8-51253d564d2f X-Archives-Hash: e83bfcdebe72ebe460f62aba3337297d --=-tk2ct/xhrlhpoRxMBPI6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 15:56 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 9/21/19 12:09 PM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > 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+'. > >=20 >=20 > This works only until people start putting >=20 > LICENSE=3D"GPL-2-only" >=20 > for things that they haven't sufficiently verified. >=20 > 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. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-tk2ct/xhrlhpoRxMBPI6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGTBAABCgB9FiEEx2qEUJQJjSjMiybFY5ra4jKeJA4FAl2GgR5fFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEM3 NkE4NDUwOTQwOThEMjhDQzhCMjZDNTYzOUFEQUUyMzI5RTI0MEUACgkQY5ra4jKe JA4y3wf8Ch2F0d0fX1bO0KmuGKDyIY2kRB8hxSdBNgrfn6AqTuatl0K371KyULoK K0c5xyq3HMAHiRduTcJAZu3YMEk8NbYLgEy13spHwD9sbqwOdKqWu0/MCaPqALIy w/jq/RMCSkwSrGcQDfLqoO4H3Tw4x589s8ITrSJ2D9mWremv+5IJeoA1bxWyrtVe NU1IpSEG6zKxfkDs0mtvDUGnlhgkIaBq99iV02PEtN5kc4qRzsyXo/BCTjvaPUqI sazkD7PvW0LsHTvAfJyXHk9uQHgtlKdF6L+KDiuxIZ4pmlWPm4HqmLwNnL6CjnYe tKWkzUeixbflj2YOMIwWGcwGClBaRw== =ricZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tk2ct/xhrlhpoRxMBPI6--