Re: Fwd: License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later

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On Tue, Mar 14 2023 at 09:37:25 AM -0400, David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There may
be longer examples.

Uh, yeah. texlive's is bad enough but I'm skeptical that that's close to a worst-case. Proponents of this style of license tag should try this exercise for WebKitGTK, Chromium, Firefox, LibreOffice, Inkscape, or Linux kernel and report back. Even if you somehow succeed once, ***your result will become stale each time the package gets rebased***. We're real bad at keeping the existing *simple* license fields updated so there's just no way we'll be able to handle the complex version.

Even for simple packages, there is no way anybody would ever be able to rely on the License field for any purpose: companies will have to do their own checks anyway. Maybe we should just remove it instead of pretending that it's accurate?

Michael

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