Re: Please review new license summaries for Debian

Quoting [email protected] (2026-06-15 16:48:51)
> Am 15.06.2026 16:33 schrieb Andrey Rakhmatullin:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 02:20:33PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> >> You are right. The full name should be enclosed in quotation marks.
> > 
> > No, it should say "the full text of the GNU General Public License 
> > v3.0".
> 
> That is a matter to discuss with the SPDX folks.
> By law there is no license like "GNU General Public License v3.0". That 
> string
> wouldn't stand in court. You have to somehow specify if it is 
> "-or-later"
> or "-only". This is why SPDX exists.

I think you are missing the point.

There is is a full text that says *what* the license is, there is no
full text that says *how* the license is applied to a project.

What stands in court is a full text *and* how it is applied to a
project.

 - Jonas

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