On Fri, Jul 29 2022 at 11:19:48 AM -0400, Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many software packages consist of code with different free and open
source licenses. Previous practice often involved
“simplification” of
the package license field when the packager believed that one license
subsumed the other — for example, using just “GPL” when the
source code
includes parts licensed under a BSD-style license as well. Going
forward, packagers and reviewers should not make this kind of
analysis,
and rather use (for example) “GPL-2.0-or-later AND MIT”. This
approach
is easier for packagers to apply in a consistent way.
There is no way a human could possibly manage that. Even for simple
projects, that's going to be a horrible mess.
If anyone wishes to contribute a more accurate license field for
WebKitGTK, feel free to try. Even if you're successful, it will
certainly become obsolete every few months. I won't stop anyone from
trying, though....
Michael
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