Bug#1002053: lintian: false positive inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license (gpl-2.0+ != gpl-2+)
Hi Soren,
Soren Stoutner wrote:
> On Sunday, January 15, 2023 5:17:10 PM MST Axel Beckert wrote:
> > > Debian, of course, prefers the Expat name as it is more precise.
> >
> > According to
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat#Differences_between_DEP5_a
> > nd_SPDX SPDX does not have the Expat license. They do have though the "MIT
> > License" (the one and only ;-), so that would imply that they're not the
> > same license.
>
> Anyone who tells you there is a One And Only MIT License is trolling you. ;)
Seems as if I should used more smileys on that sentence. Consider
having been trolled by myself. ;-)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Ambiguity_and_variants
Or said otherwise: I read exactly that page (and
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Expat) before
sending my reply.
> "The name 'MIT License' is potentially ambiguous.
Yes, but IMHO https://spdx.org/licenses/ managed to get quite a good
list on all the variants including unamigous short names for them.
Except that they miss the "Expat license".
Regards, Axel
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