[aur-general] Licenses, GPL3 only

[Loui Chang]

On Mon 23 Aug 2010 12:03 +0200, Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
> I just looked up the GPL notation again.
> Here's the relevant excerpt from the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards
> 
> ..
> The (L)GPL has many versions and permutations of those versions.
> For (L)GPL software, the convention is:
> 
>     * (L)GPL - (L)GPLv2 or any later version
>     * (L)GPL2 - (L)GPL2 only
>     * (L)GPL3 - (L)GPL3 or any later version
> 
> 
> Now besides that this is obviously confusing there's another problem.
> How would you specify that a program is GPL3 only?

Here's my proposed scheme:
GPL  = Any GPL license
GPL1 = GPL1 only
GPL2 = GPL2 only
GPL3 = GPL3 only

If you want to use 2 and 3, just list them both in the licenses array.
Future proof.