Re: SPDX Statistics - Voyager 2 edition

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 8:30 AM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What's the commended approach for packages that use deprecated
> identifiers then? I would rather not just convert "GPL-2.0" to
> "GPL-2.0-or-later" or "GPL-2.0-only", since it's almost always not
> obvious which one was originally intended. Do we need to file issues
> with upstream projects and ask them to clarify?

That is probably not worthwhile in most cases. I think it makes more
sense to document some general policies about this.

For example, any Rust crate metadata using `GPL-2.0` (i.e.., *seeming*
to use the deprecated SPDX identifier) can probably be assumed to mean
`GPL-2.0-only` if there is no other information in the project
suggesting otherwise. However, if a project just says "Licensed under
GPLv2", there's an undocumented Fedora convention from the Callaway
era of assuming (at least where convenient) that means GPLv2 or later
if there is no further information suggesting otherwise. Getting this
issue right (i.e., how to represent the *GPL licenses (in terms of the
"or-later" vs. "only" characteristic) probably no longer has much
practical significance so it's not worth spending too much energy on.

> As for <ID>+ being valid SPDX syntax, can that be supported by
> fedora-license-validate or whatever the tool is called today?

That's probably a good idea, though it would seem to be predicated on
us documenting that any "allowed" license identifier is still allowed
if it adds the `+` operator.

Richard
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