Jilayne Lovejoy wrote at 01:07 (EDT) on Thursday:
yes, I actually agree. I have long thought that the short identifiers
would be better served as: GPL-2.0+ and GPL-2.0-only
I could live with that, although the .0 makes no sense there, IMO, and I
really do like the format that FSF standardized
the
text:
spdx-license=IDENTIFIER
would be adequate. I'm told that dmg suggested that it'd be better to
say something like:
License of this file is: spdx-license=IDENTIFIER
and while I agreed with dmg, but I further suggested:
License: spdx-license=IDENTIFIER
would be adequate
I just posted another message about this License:
spdx-license=IDENTIFIER idea that various folks approached me about at
LinuxCon. As I noted in that message, if SPDX identifiers are going to
be used in the wild not merely as an internal representation for SPDX
experts, but also for mere mortals