licenses: Make single-version-only GPL explicit #92348
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I commonly see people use the former when they should use the latter. Would be also in line with the SPDX change https://www.gnu.org/licenses/identify-licenses-clearly.html
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I would like to merge this as is for now, so that we can at least have clear licensing on new packages. We can fix the old ones over time. Edit: There are really to many to check at once: $ git grep -P 'license.+gpl3(?!Plus)' | grep -v 'hackage-packages.nix' | grep -v 'xml:' | wc -l
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This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/lib-licenses-gpl3-co-are-now-deprecated/8206/1 |
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Motivation for this change
I commonly see people use the former when they should use the latter.
Would be also in line with the SPDX change https://gnu.org/licenses/identify-licenses-clearly.html
Still need to rename the licenses at the point of use.