On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Philippe Ombredanne <pombreda...@nexb.com> wrote:
> Hi Till, > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Till Jaeger via Spdx-legal > <spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I had a look into the new version of the SPDX license list and I think > it is > > a good idea to distinguish GPL-2.0-only and GPL-2.0-or-later. > > > > However, I have not found the variant for: > > > > "If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you > may > > choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. " > > > > Shouldn't be an identifier (e.g. "GPL") for this situation? > > > > I did not follow your mailing list. I apologize if this issues has > already > > been discussed. > > IMHO the correct way to handle this is with a GPL-1.0-or-later: this > means the same thing to me. > GPL-1.0-or-later is what's been used for some Linux kernel files when we encounter this version of phrasing and no other clues. Of course the situation is complicated by the "MODULE(GPL)" statement which has an actual definition of GPL version 2 or later elsewhere. ;-) Kate
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