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GPL license duplicates
There are duplicates for GPLv2
and GPLv3
All alternatives are used by at least 100 projects. I suppose, it is an unnecessary source of confusion. Could Ohloh team merge these licenses.
Andrey:
Thanks for letting us know. I've marked it down here as something we need to look into when we get the chance.
I've just added the licence information for the GNU Cobol project. Although I like the possibility to add a new license this obviously leaded to a real mess with the licences (I've reset the license 5 time and go now with the full name).
I'd suggest to make adding licenses harder as soon as possible (one could submit it to the team, after the first click on submit
all licences that are similar (just lookup the single words [despite of licence
]) can be shown with a question Are you sure none of the listed licenses are identical to the proposed license?
- after enabling a checkbox Yes, I made sure that ...
the request will be sent to the team.
A totally different thing is the licence cleanup, which should be taken to the agenda, too (it is very confusing, the search for a licence won't show all projects, ...).
For GPL/LGPL I suggest to change the current entries with the full name GNU (Lesser)+ General Public License v.*
to include the short form, for example GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later (LGPLv3+)
, this way you can find it with both the short form (I've started the search with this) and the long form (I've ended with this recognizing that all licences we use are available in long form, too [but not all in short form]).
Thank you for reviewing this 3 year old ticket.
Simon
Simon,
Thanks for your well thought out comments. I can certainly concur that licenses can get extremely complicated in very short order. I will, of course, bring your ideas up to management to spark some welcome discussion. I would also suggest you take a look at spdx.org and their effort to standardize ways to refer to licenses and to groups of licenses taken as a whole and how they are applied in the real world. (It's not just for academic discussion any more...)
Thanks!
