On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 15:56 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 9/21/19 12:09 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, > > > > TL;DR: I'd like to replace 'GPL-2' with 'GPL-2-only' etc., having > > the former trigger QA warning asking the dev to double-check if it's > > 'GPL-2-only' or 'GPL-2+'. > > > > This works only until people start putting > > LICENSE="GPL-2-only" > > for things that they haven't sufficiently verified. > > If we want to let those people keep committing to the tree, then a > specially-formatted comment might work just as well. It would be harder > to QA (you'd have to parse the comment and associate it with the > variable), but it would save us from having to rename the license every > few years to catch mistakes.
Honestly, do you believe having the choice of 'GPL-2' and 'GPL-2-only' people would choose the latter without actually checking the difference? Because the way I see it, choosing the former is much more likely. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
