On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 9:40 PM David A. Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> The last number (if there is one) in a SPDX license id is the version number.
> Everything before that number (and its leading “-“), is the unversioned ID.
> There’s a recent exception for the GPL etc., but those are exceptions.

Philippe Ombredanne:
> As far as I know this is completely unspecified. So it may look like it, but 
> it will most not likely not hold on all keys, not hold in the future and not 
> be guaranteed. There is no specific relationship between any license 
> identifiers so far (I am not saying that it would be bad to have one though)

As far as I know it's unspecified, but that is the actual practice.  Exceptions 
exist, but they have reasons behind them.

I agree that it would be good to formally specify this... which I think is your 
point.

--- David A. Wheeler

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