Re: only/or later and the goals of SPDX

2017-11-07 Thread W. Trevor King
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 11:31:07AM -0700, J Lovejoy wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses And they have an official position on the javierwilson/tonto case, where the GPL-3.0 text is in LICENSE, but no other file in the repository contains copyright or licensing

Re: only/or later and the goals of SPDX

2017-11-07 Thread J Lovejoy
(top-posting, as this part isn’t directly related) It just occurred to me that how SPDX currently has the identifiers: plain GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0+ is the same pattern that Fedora uses: they have a slightly different nomenclature, but also have a “plain” identifier and the + version: GPLv2 and

Re: only/or later and the goals of SPDX

2017-11-07 Thread W. Trevor King
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:19:31AM +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > I think that whatever is done on the SPDX side to be > precise vs. being accurate-enough and good-enough will unlikely ever > be adopted as the magnitude of the education and changes required > would be immense… Backwards