Schuberth, Sebastian <sebastian.schube...@here.com> wrote: > Using a + is a whart. Licenses that allow the use of other versions do so > explicitly in their texts, the GPL being the most prominent but the EPL comes > to mind too. So there is no such thing as GPL-2.0 or another version: these > are the plain default GPL terms.
The issue is how the software is licensed, not what the text of the GPL (or anything else) is. The use of "+" to mean "or later" is a long-standing convention preceding SPDX. > Essentially GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0+ mean exactly the same the thing. No, there's a need to distinguish between "exactly this version" or "this version of later". Some software, such as the Linux kernel, are GPL version 2.0 only. --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
