> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:spdx-tech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Foster, Jeremiah > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 12:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [spdx-tech] minutes, summary, next steps > > On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 09:28 -0400, Wheeler, David A wrote: > > Gary @ sourceauditor.com: > > > Since "-" is an allowed character for a license ID, it would be more > > > challenging to write a parser for the "-only" operator since we > > > would have to determine if the "-" is part of the ID or is part of > > > the operator. BTW "+" is not allowed in the license ID and "GPL-2.0 > > > +" I believe is legal. I have a strong preference for "ONLY" being > > > the operator over "-only". > > > > I think "ONLY" is clear, and we already have other alphabetic keywords > > ("AND", "OR", "WITH"). If you want to cuddle up an operator like "+", > > I suggested "!" earlier, which would still work. > > > > --- David A. Wheeler > > Where have we landed? Is GPL-3.0+ legal or illegal? I ask because I'm making > templates for headers inside our org and the discussion is germane. :-)
I didn't make the last legal call, so I'm just working from the minutes and follow-up email threads. But it looks like GPL-3.0+ would be valid in all proposed scenarios and should be safe to use. Gary _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
