On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 23:31, Micheal Waltz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:18:01PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> > > Looking through the packaging docs[2], I found the syntax for dual
> license
> > > is,
> > >
> > > Files: rr/*
> > > Copyright: 2020 makeworld <[email protected]>
> > > License: GPL-3+ or Expat
> > >
> >
> > It should be "GPL-3 or MIT" there should not be a "+", since the license
> is
> > GPL-3 and not GPL-3 and beyond
>
> More for understanding here, but in the copyright documentation [1],
> it says,
>
> "There are many versions of the MIT license. Please use Expat instead,
> when it matches."
>

Sure, I could have used Expat here.


> Does it really matter that much if MIT or Expat is the name if the text
> is included as well? More want to know going forward for other packages
> as it seems a bit ambiguous.
>

Nah, does not matter too much. If the license provided matches the verbatim
copy of Expat, use Expat.
We should be fine for now I guess.


> > Admittedly, I saw this mail after I made the change myself and pushed,
> > please have a look at my commits.
> >
> > I did changes that I considered sensible and uploaded to NEW. Thanks a
> lot
> > for your work on this :-)
>
> Awesome! I looked over the changes and all seem reasonable, thank you
> very much for your help!
>

\o/

Nilesh

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