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Specify GPL license variant in README #847

Open tranzystorekk opened 5 months ago

tranzystorekk commented 5 months ago

As noted in SPDX GPL3 license documentation, the license text doesn't typically differ between the -only and -or-later variants, so I'm thinking it would be helpful to users to add a short comment at the bottom of README about which variant we're using (I'm assuming -or-later as it's the more convenient one).

SteveLauC commented 4 months ago

Hi, sorry for the late reply, I read this issue without replying to it, then I forgot to unread it, so it was ignored.

the license text doesn't typically differ between the -only and -or-later variants,

Yeah, thanks for the report! From this list, there are indeed 2 kinds of GPL-3.0 license, only and later. It looks like GitHub does not distinguish between these 2 variants, I guess the provided GPL-3.0 license by GitHub is more like the only variant?

Honestly, I don't have any strong view on choosing the variant, but I think I should ask the original author of Topgrade to do this as it is kinda unsuitable for me to change it (if there needs a change).