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

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#883950: Next steps on "[GPL-3+]" proposal"):
> To be clear, I don't believe there's a way forward here that doesn't
> require at least some rewriting of parsers.  Currently, copyright-format
> 1.0 requires either that every License stanza in a Files paragraph contain
> some "license text" in the copyright-format text (which may just be the
> common-licenses pointer) or that there be a later stand-alone License
> paragraph with the same short license identifier that has that text.  This
> proposal breaks that property by introducing the possibility of a short
> license identifier with no accompanying text.  This will require parser
> changes.

It will require parser changes in some, but not all, parsers.

Changing the version would involve parser changes in all parsers.

Ian.