License chooser doesn't differentiate between GPLv{2,3}{,+}

todogroup / gh-issues

A curated set of issues related to GitHub and running corporate scale open source

http://todogroup.org

26 stars 4 forks source link

License chooser doesn't differentiate between GPLv{2,3}{,+} #24

Open lfaraone opened 8 years ago

lfaraone commented 8 years ago

When specifying a GNU license, just a LICENSE file is committed. This means that all new projects become GPLv2-only or GPLv3-only.

It'd be nice to offer options for GPLv2+ vs GPLv2, and make the forward-compatible option more prominently recommended.

jeffmcaffer commented 4 years ago

Worthwhile seeing what's going on here. Is this a limitation of Licensee (i.e., working backwards from the text to know V2.0+) or is it an effort to keep license selection simple.

/cc @benbalter may be interested or have views

byjrack commented 4 years ago

Yeah while the author may know where the "or later" is declared it may be complicated outside of assumptions in the COPYING.md