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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>,
	licenses <licenses@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:45:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38GDvfJHdnT4xek3udXZOgain_dEh5Ysw2i58gs5KmBGkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w6gtv95nrgl.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de>

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, Matt Turner wrote:
>
> > An idea to consider: use SPDX license identifiers (see
> > https://spdx.org/licenses/)
>
> > For GPL 2 they are "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0-or-later"
>
> Yeah, they have a history of using silly names. What does 2.0 mean?
> There is no such version of the GPL, and with Gentoo versioning rules,
> 2 is not equal to 2.0.

Just responding because the absurdity of this angers me, to be honest.
See if you notice anything funny about the URL:

    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-24  3:45 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 [this message]
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
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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