Hi Richard & Gary, At a time I am requested to align various projects and the EC publication office license lists (data sets) I am still uncertain about the SPDX policy of creating "actual" SPDX identifiers for "future" or "later" licenses. I shared concerns with Jilayne but be sure that this is not done for creating some controversy, just to check that the SPDX policy is well understood.
- Adding "or-later" (and much more rarely "-only") is indeed a frequent licensor practice because recommended by some license steward. For example if you search Google for "Licensed under the EUPL-1.2-or-later" you will find references. But don’t you think that this mention should be considered as a future intention, commitment or guarantee provided by the licensor and that it should not merit a specific “actual” SPDX ID, because no later text exists at this time? - It seems that this addition is done for the GNU licenses (where the licence steward is the FSF – Free Software Foundation) and not for all the others.Is this a special treatment for GNU licenses or is SPDX policy to allow or apply it for all licenses, i.e. depending on the license steward request? - Has SPDX assessed the risk that this practice would multiply the number of identifiers with uncertain use and possibly add some confusion? - SPDX now considers GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0, LGPL-3.0 etc. as "deprecated". Did SPDX assess the impact – which could appear as nonsense for most users? - Until a subsequent version, for example some GPL-4.0, exists, is it consistent to associate the text of the current GPL-3.0 with a specific SPDX identifier "GPL-3.0-or-later"? - ·Is it still possible for SPDX to backtrack on this subject or is it a definitive policy? -- Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz [email protected] tel. + 32 478 50 40 65 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1780): https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/1780 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/102069167/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/leave/2655439/21656/1698928721/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
