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spdx / LicenseListPublisher

Tool that generates license data found in the license-list-data repository from the license-list-XML source
Apache License 2.0
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AGPL (or later) #81

Closed kkmzero closed 4 years ago

kkmzero commented 4 years ago

What exactly is the difference between these two license templates? I checked them and they seem identical, however I would expect AGPL-3.0-only to not have "or any later version" line.

https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/master/text/AGPL-3.0-or-later.txt https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/master/text/AGPL-3.0-only.txt

goneall commented 4 years ago

@kkmzero There is no difference between the templates. The templates are for the actual license text which is identical between the 2 licenses. The license header may be different, however.

The source used to generate the license data is https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/src/AGPL-3.0-or-later.xml and https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/src/AGPL-3.0-only.xml

The Notes field describes the difference a bit more.

BTW - the same approach is used for other "-only" and "-or-later" licenses.