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 1E11C138334 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D401E0932; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (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 486F8E0920 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46E5B34B463 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <52cf5a0b-4ff4-e238-fea2-7c07908e4ec5@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:56:50 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: e5fe09e9-56df-415f-a2f4-d988628e7558 X-Archives-Hash: 9fe1d6d986ddf875d626cacc378acad6 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.