Jonas Smedegaard:
[...] DEP5 already encourages (but does not require) use of SPDX shortnames, except where Debian and SPDX disagree on sensible naming. See https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#spdx and the historical notes at https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat#Differences_between_DEP5_and_SPDX Do you have ideas on how to address the documented differences in naming choices? - Jonas
Is it really that valuable for us to have a delta here compared to what upstream projects would use?
As I understand it, we are at worst talking `GPL-2.0-only` / `GPL-2.0-or-later` (SPDX) vs `GPL-2` / `GPL-2+` (DEP-5). As much as I might prefer the DEP-5 variant, I am struggling to see the advantage outweigh the cost of divergence.
With my current knowledge, I would strongly be in favor of deprecating the unique names for DEP-5 and encourage migration to fully compliant SPDX names.
Best regards, Niels