Bug#696185: [copyright-format] Use short names from SPDX

2022-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie writes: > Sorry, (c) seems very unlikely: earlier versions of SPDX had the same > convention as DEP-5, but later versions moved to "GPL-2.0-only" and > "GPL-2.0-or-later", which I think was the result of a request from the > FSF to make it clearer whether the "or later" clause of

Bug#696185: [copyright-format] Use short names from SPDX

2022-09-03 Thread Simon McVittie
Please keep the subject line in place when replying to bugs, to give readers some context (maintainers will often be seeing bug mail as a single message among many unrelated messages). On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 at 16:22:46 +0500, Akbarkhon Variskhanov wrote: > FSF[1] as well as SPDX[2] request using

Bug#696185:

2022-09-03 Thread Akbarkhon Variskhanov
FSF[1] as well as SPDX[2] request using the suffixes "-only" or "-or-later" with GNU licenses: > Therefore, when you use SPDX license indicators, please use these: > GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later DEP-5 uses the bare form, i.e. "GPL-3" or "GPL-3+". I added this difference to the wiki page.