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 1A9A9138334 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65BDBE09CB; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:45:42 +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 215D7E09C8 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-f52.google.com (mail-io1-f52.google.com [209.85.166.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBB0F34B4EF for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f52.google.com with SMTP id b136so973698iof.3 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:45:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUf8aDLAs6ve/Izwkx2vN/jIeFaWaOEvXJ8wZ9aiR0rJ3z4dtAx JQgyLb5h9YpEqZ50xx3Lk6c1SCG6DNWf+8SUCRQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyPDzFh7nP1G91O6L1nNmg3v4ypZ2jH1NOdHkv/tqSOloAkERgUGgExrD+TZx+LJKtZhBo3ysVMe3hsMPtWLXw= X-Received: by 2002:a02:9002:: with SMTP id w2mr1289915jaf.140.1569296738734; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:45:38 -0700 (PDT) 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 References: In-Reply-To: From: Matt Turner Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:45:27 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding 'GPL-2-only', 'GPL-3-only' etc. license variants for better auditing To: Ulrich Mueller Cc: gentoo development , licenses Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: ffd16007-95bd-4f62-ae42-569648d152c4 X-Archives-Hash: 5363fbb31b83db4b5c8e2487f798be5c On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ulrich Mueller 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