David>Okay, so my previous proposal won't work exactly, but I think it can
be rescued with a little tweaking

It looks like you are inclined that "SDPX should have some definition of
or-later".
That is good to know.

David>Maybe we should claim that a version number is the first match

How about Spencer-86, Spencer-94, Spencer-99?
How about Unicode-DFS-2015, Unicode-DFS-2016?
W3C-19980720, W3C-20150513, W3C?

David>Maybe we should claim that a version number is the first match after
a "-" to some pattern like this regex:

How that classifies 1.3a vs 1.3c? Is "c" a part of the license name?

David>We can *require* that its SPDX identifier have a specific answer - I
would recommend the answer be "yes".

Is "MIT a later version of GPL-2.0"? Yes. :)

David> regardless of what the license text says

I'm sure one should not specify "Bundle-License: CC-BY-SA-2.0" and overrule
it for "just 2.0" at the same time.
Either the author uses "the canonical SPDX variation of CC-BB-SA-2.0" or
the license is different (== its SPDX expression must be different from
CC-BB-SA-2.0).

It might be SPDX standard should allow "-only" optional modifier for all
license ids (e.g. CC-BY-SA-2.0-only), however that is a bit different story.

Vladimir

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