On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 11:41:09AM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > I am doing the conversion of license tags in my projects and i have a > > project where some files are under the GPL-2.0-or-later license and other > > under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. Perhaps this has been mentioned > > somewhere but i did not notice, but is it possible to merge these 2 into > > just GPL-3.0-or-later and thus reduce the specification to only one license? > > Per the licensing guidelines¹ > > The spec file License: field consists of an enumeration of > all licenses covering any code or other material contained > in the corresponding binary RPM. This enumeration must take > the form of an SPDX license expression. No further analysis > as to the "effective" license should be done. > > ¹ https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-field/#_basic_policy
Yeah, this is a change from previous guidance. Instead of trying to calculate the effect, just state what's there. Even if it makes the expression kind of long and unwieldy. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
