From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>, licenses <licenses@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:43:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38GAAnqB_-sFa2xigJ_BRtk8YkapAubjXNc3L7Bcpp1jQw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190924014220.GA45747@baraddur.perfinion.com>
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:42 PM Jason Zaman <perfinion@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:17:53PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > >>>>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
> >
> > > 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 has been discussed before. There is no such license as GPL-2-only.
>
> Yes there is:
> https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html
> https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-or-later.html
Just so everything is clear: Ulrich is just making an extremely
pedantic point that the there's no version of the GPL-2 license itself
with the "only" in it. Strange, now that I think about it I don't
remember a "GPL-2+" license either...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-24 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-21 16:09 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing Michał Górny
2019-09-21 16:57 ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 23:21 ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 23:46 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-22 0:03 ` Matt Turner
2019-09-24 3:45 ` Matt Turner
2019-09-24 7:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-24 15:39 ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 19:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-21 19:26 ` William Hubbs
2019-09-21 19:57 ` Michał Górny
2019-09-21 22:45 ` William Hubbs
2019-09-22 6:12 ` Michał Górny
2019-09-24 1:42 ` Jason Zaman
2019-09-24 3:43 ` Matt Turner [this message]
2019-09-24 6:16 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-21 19:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2019-09-21 19:59 ` Michał Górny
2019-09-21 20:02 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-09-21 20:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-21 22:01 ` Matt Turner
2019-09-21 23:38 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-22 9:16 ` Kent Fredric
2019-09-22 16:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Richard Yao
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