J Lovejoy [mailto:opensou...@jilayne.com]:
> If this is a potential problem once GPL-2.0 is changed to GPL-2.0-only, then
> it is currently a problem.
Yes indeed, that's my point :-).
> And perhaps by altering the current identifier (GPL-2.0) to be more explicit
> (GPL-2.0-only) we will expose just how often GPL-2.0 has been used
> incorrectly.
The tools are currently *required* to be incorrect, because they cannot report
the information they have ("I have GPL-2.0, and I don't know if 'or later'
applies"). Neither the proposed "GPL-2.0-only" nor "GPL-2.0+" correctly
represents the information they have. Tools will have to output *something*,
and whatever they produce will dilute in *practice* the strict meanings of
those license identifiers.
--- David A. Wheeler
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