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Bug#883950: Next steps on "[GPL-3+]" proposal



On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 08:47:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> A set of files under the license GPL-3+ and [GPL-3+] are under exactly the
> same license, so it is confusing and strange to use different identifiers
> based on a technical point about what information is included elsewhere in
> the copyright file.  Furthermore, the brackets are entirely opaque.  They
> convey no meaning to a person who hasn't read the specification, which
> seems inappropriate for a specification that's supposed to still be
> human-readable.

with my "I haven't read #883950"-hat, I can confirm what Russ said here.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger, to give another data point

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