<div dir="ltr">Cross posting comment from ferdnyc at <a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2959#issuecomment-4018341555">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2959#issuecomment-4018341555</a><div><br></div><div>I wanted to bring up the GPL specifically: I notice that OSI is listing all of the GPL versions as "GPL-X.Y-only" (and in fact, URLs like <a href="https://opensource.org/license/GPL-3.0-or-later">https://opensource.org/license/GPL-3.0-or-later</a> result in a 404 error), but the license text displayed at <a href="https://opensource.org/license/GPL-3.0-only">https://opensource.org/license/GPL-3.0-only</a> has a "How to Apply These Terms..." section that includes the "either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." text, making it appear to be GPL-3.0-or-later.<br><br>(In truth, AIUI the FSF doesn't differentiate between GPL-3.0-only and GPL-3.0-or-later themselves, the difference is in how you choose to apply the license to your work. But in light of that, calling the license "GPL-3.0-only" doesn't appear to be correct... it's either just "GPL-3.0", or it's "GPL-3.0-or-later" (as it allows for the "any later version" stipulation, or it's BOTH.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 9:16\u202fAM Nick Vidal <<a href="mailto:nick.vidal@opensource.org">nick.vidal@opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br>The OSI is looking for feedback from the community about an important change to the OSI-Approved licenses listed on our website.</div><div><br></div><div>We've standardized OSI license URLs using SPDX identifiers, while carefully preserving compatibility with the many links that already exist across the web and tools.</div><div><br></div><div><div>The full set of OSI-approved licenses continues to be available at: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://opensource.org/licenses" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/licenses</a></div><div><br></div><div>More details about the update is available here:</div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://opensource.org/blog/osi-adopts-spdx-ids-for-license-urls" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/blog/osi-adopts-spdx-ids-for-license-urls</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you spot any broken links or odd behaviour, please let us know.</div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to reach out to us by replying to this mailing list or by commenting here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2959" target="_blank">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2959</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nick</div></div>
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