On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 4:53 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 3/1/23 12:55 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 01. 03. 23 v 3:18 Richard Fontana napsal(a):
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 6:49 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 23:37 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>>>
>>> 8795 tags can be trivially converted using `license-fedora2spdx`
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> running [1] the result is [2]
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> askalono crawl libcomps-0.1.19
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> libcomps-0.1.19/COPYING
>>> License: GPL-2.0-only (original text)
>>> Score: 0.988
>
> I tried to use license-diff plugin for Firefox and it shows the same
> score for GPL-2.0-only and for GPL-2.0-or-later.
>
> And license-diff plugin does not show "any later" as diff when I
> compare it to GPL-2.0-only.
that is correct b/c - like license diff is comparing full text of the
license (kind of like what Richard explains below)... maybe good to add
a note specific to GPL about this in our documentation... and so it
grows... :)
To the extent that license detection tools are reporting
"GPL-2.0-only" based solely on recognition of the GPL version 2
license text, that is unfortunate, and I would argue, a bug in those
tools and a misapplication of SPDX identifiers. This seems to be the
case for askalono. Of course this may be a side effect of the
questionable change SPDX made (resulting, from what I understand, from
lobbying by the FSF) to deprecate the GPL identifiers that don't use
-or-later or -only. :)
(I'm not asserting it *matters* -- that is a more complicated question.)
Richard