license naming

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I've just read this link: 
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-article-for-claritys-sake-please-dont-say-licensed-under-gnu-gpl-2

Full Quote:

> In this article, For Clarity's Sake, Please Don't Say "Licensed under GNU GPL 
> 2"!, Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman (RMS) explains how 
> to properly identify what GNU license your work is under. Whenever a 
> developer releases their work under a GNU license, they have the option to 
> either release it under that version of the license only, or to make it 
> available under any later version of that license. This option ensures that 
> software can remain compatible with future versions of the license. But what 
> happens if someone just says their program is under GNU GPL version 2, for 
> example?
>
>>    [T]hey are leaving the licensing of the program unclear. Is it released 
>> under GPL-2.0-only, or GPL-2.0-or-later? Can you merge the code with 
>> packages released under GPL-3.0-or-later?
>
> Thus, it is vitally important that developers indicate in their license 
> notices whether they are licensing their work under that version "only" or 
> under "any later version." Of course, these days it is also helpful for 
> license notices to be machine-readable. The Software Package Data Exchange 
> (SPDX) specification sets a standardized way of identifying licenses on 
> software packages. They are updating their license identifiers to include 
> this distinction in their upcoming version. For example, for GNU GPL version 
> 2, the identifiers are now "GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later." The old 
> identifiers (e.g. "GPL-2.0") are now deprecated and should no longer be used. 
> Based on the changes SPDX says are coming in the SPDX specification and its 
> Web site, the FSF expects to endorse the new version of the SPDX. We thank 
> SPDX and their community for making these helpful changes.


Maybe we could make use of what https://spdx.org/licenses/
provides. I didn't compare the names with our names, I'll do
this on the train next week.
Good idea, bad idea?
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