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From: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
To: J Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clarification on -only and -or-later
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 16:15:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51b280da-1081-7aaa-72f0-cafbdf2d1b94@lohutok.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445491EE-15E7-4A7E-9032-E28DD1772E56@jilayne.com>

On 5/20/19 11:52 PM, J Lovejoy wrote:
>> On May 20, 2019, at 4:19 PM, Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> wrote:
>>
>> No one was claiming that an unversioned GPL universally means
>> 2.0-or-later, only that it means we have the option to choose versions.
>> And since we have the option to choose, we should choose 2.0-or-later.
> 
> yeah, one can make that viable argument, I guess I’d just prefer that we don’t put ourselves in a position to need to explain too much. Preferably the SPDX identifier is an obvious expression of what the license notice stated or the copyright holders cleaned up any ambiguities.

I don't personally have a strong opinion either way. I appreciate the
legal consistency of choosing 2.0 where we can (consistent with 2.0 in
LICENSES/preferred, and 1.0 in LICENSES/deprecated), and I respect the
people who were arguing for dropping 1.0. So, if I had to make the call,
I'd probably go with 2.0-or-later. But, I'm fine with whatever is chosen.

Allison

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-20 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-20 18:40 clarification on -only and -or-later J Lovejoy
2019-05-20 18:52 ` Greg KH
2019-05-20 19:26   ` J Lovejoy
2019-05-20 21:35     ` Allison Randal
2019-05-20 22:09       ` J Lovejoy
2019-05-20 22:19         ` Allison Randal
2019-05-20 22:52           ` J Lovejoy
2019-05-20 23:15             ` Allison Randal [this message]
2019-05-21 17:24 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2019-05-21 18:05   ` J Lovejoy
2019-05-22 13:23     ` Greg KH
2019-05-22 13:53       ` Allison Randal
2019-05-22 14:00         ` Greg KH
2019-05-22 14:20           ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-05-22 14:30             ` Allison Randal
2019-05-22 15:45               ` Greg KH
2019-05-22 19:04                 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2019-05-22 14:22           ` Allison Randal
2019-05-22 15:03           ` J Lovejoy
     [not found]   ` <5EB6B416-F24C-4741-BC0E-6C1896E7A705@jilayne.com>
2019-05-21 21:14     ` Bradley M. Kuhn

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