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Re: [PATCH 2/2] LICENSES: Remove the use of deprecated LGPL SPDX tags


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 15:13:49 +0200
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On 05.05.2023 15:05, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The SPDX forms without an explicit -only or -or-later suffix are deprecated
> and should not be used.

I guess this wants a reference to where this is specified. In particular ...

> --- a/LICENSES/LGPL-2.1
> +++ b/LICENSES/LGPL-2.1
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> -Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1
> -Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
> +Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only
> +Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
>  
>  SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1.html

... I can't spot anything like this under e.g. this URL.

Also is there a reason you add Deprecated-Identifier: only to GPL-2.0?
Enumerating them would seem reasonable to me, not just for completeness,
but also in case we end up importing a file with a deprecated tag.

Jan



 


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