"Wheeler, David A" <dwhee...@ida.org> writes: > John Sullivan: >> A key part is missing in the description of the original FSF proposal here >> though -- which is deprecating the existing GPL-2.0 and similar "plain" >> identifiers for GNU licenses so that the identifiers used always indicate >> whether the version is "only" or "any later". >> >> As I understand it, people had concerns with deprecating the plain >> identifiers because of situations where they (for example) find a copy of >> GPLv2, but no clear statement about whether the program is actually >> licensed under its terms. > > Not exactly. In many cases it's clearly licensed under GPLv2. > The issue is that often we don't know if "or any later version" > applies.
On this point, to me, if it doesn't say "or any later version", then it's "only" -- assuming a clear statement other than the license text itself specifying the version number of the GPL. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B https://status.fsf.org/johns | https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <https://my.fsf.org/join>. _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
