From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:19:01 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/joe: license is GPL-2.0+ In-Reply-To: <87k1a3yye3.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <20190920113003.21711-1-peter@korsgaard.com> <87k1a3yye3.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20190920141901.63b6d751@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:56:20 +0200 Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Yegor" == Yegor Yefremov writes: > > > Hi Peter, > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 1:30 PM Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >> > >> Joe changed the COPYING file from GPL-1.0 to GPL-2.0 in the development > >> leading up to 3.8: > >> > >> https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/d731f9b3794bc4c896f2efa1c97ac2c82c3365ac/ > >> > >> So change the license to GPL-2.0+ > > > GPL-2.0+, GPL-2.0 etc. identifiers are deprecated [1]. > > > What should we do? Should we switch to the new ones? > > > [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0+.html > > That is a bigger discussion. I personally find the replacement > "(GNU General Public License v2.0 only) or later" harder to read: > > https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-August/223991.html > > Are there any concrete advantages to changing this tree wide? The replacement is GPL-2.0-or-later, see https://spdx.org/licenses/. I'm not sure where they got this "(GNU General Public License v2.0 only) or later" in the U-Boot discussion. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com