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Unspecified license tag icons #3419

Closed comradekingu closed 4 years ago

comradekingu commented 4 years ago

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Should be GPLv2+, GPLv3, AGPLv3+ GPLv3-only etc. There is also a lot of difference between BSD variants. 2 clause. 3 clause etc.

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nijel commented 4 years ago

The intention was to make this short indication of the license. We can't put full details here. We might a well just show OSI approved flag instead, but I thought this would be more useful.

comradekingu commented 4 years ago

@nijel It is more useful, but it has to be specific to be meaningful. I made a list of all the licenses in use on Hosted. (- signifies only).

Apache2.0

LGPLv2- LGPLv2+ LGPLv2.1- LGPLv2.1+

LGPLv3- LGPLv3+

GPLv2- GPLv2+ GPLv3- GPLv3+

AGPLv2- AGPLv2+ AGPLv3- AGPLv3+

GFDLv1.3+

MPL2.0

BSD2c BSD3c

ISC

MIT

Beerware

zlib

LaTeXv1.3c

CCZ1.0U CCBY4.0I CCBYSA4.0I CCBYND4.0I WTFPL Unfree

It would be a lot easier to navigate the list on https://hosted.weblate.org/accounts/profile/#licenses with these shorter names too.

nijel commented 4 years ago

I don't feel like reinventing license naming. We currently rely on SPDX for that. The simplified license currently is whatever is there up to fist dash:

https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/blob/ef0508456ada99794e678f8b667ccdd0f5e6388e/weblate/trans/models/component.py#L2030-L2032

In other places, full license name is shown.

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comradekingu commented 4 years ago

@nijel Dropping the dashes and replacing "or later" with plus and "only" with - doesn't reinvent the license name, whereas cutting the name short at the first dash does.

The + for "or later" is common practice, could even do "only" instead of minus, as not a whole lot of projects even use that.

The CC licenses have nothing meaninful in common, and there are a lot of differences between the numbers and designations of other licenses.

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