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<h2>Status</h2>

<strong>Draft</strong>

<h2>Issue</h2>

<p>There is not a way to express that the user may choose, at their
discretion, to following the terms and conditions of a specified
license or any later version of that license. In some ways this is
similar to a simple disjunctive licensing declaration. However, the
set of licenses changes over time so separate way of expressing this
licensing information is required.</p>

<h3>Use cases</h3>

<p>The set of use cases we need to be able to describe in SPDX is:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>A standard license of a particular version (such as GPL version 2)
and every later version of that license</p></li>
<li><p>A non-standard license of a particular version and every later
version of that license.</p></li>
<li><p>Unversioned license declaration (such as "GPL").</p></li>
</ul>

<h2>Proposal</h2>

<p>Introduce a license set, <code>LicenseOrLaterVersion</code> that
explicitly represents a specify license all its later versions. It
would be left to tools and/or humans to determine the actual licenses
that should be included in this set at any specific point in time.</p>

<p>The definition of `License` would not change. The `DeclaredLicense` and `DetectedLicense` properties would be
updated to allow their value to be a `License` or `LicenseOrLaterVersion`.</p>

<h3>Examples</h3>

<h4>License or later version</h4>

<pre><code><br /> <Package><br /> <DeclaredLicense><br /> <LicenseOrLaterVersion><br /> <BaseLicense rdf:about="license:GPLv2" /><br /> </LicenseOrLaterVersion><br /> </DeclaredLicense><br /> </Package><br /></code></pre>

<h3>Changes</h3><h3>

<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/or-later-version-licensing">'or-later-version-licensing</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>. A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p></h3>

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-<pre><code>&lt;Package&gt;
+<pre><code>&lt;Package&gt;<br />  &lt;DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />    &lt;LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;<br />      &lt;BaseLicense rdf:about="license:GPLv2" /&gt;<br />    &lt;/LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;<br />  &lt;/DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />&lt;/Package&gt;</code></pre>
-  &lt;DeclaredLicense&gt;
-    &lt;LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;
-      &lt;BaseLicense rdf:about="license:GPLv2" /&gt;
-    &lt;/LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;
-  &lt;/DeclaredLicense&gt;
 &lt;/Package&gt;</code></pre>
-<h3>Changes</h3><h3>
+<h3>Changes</h3>
-<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/or-later-version-licensing">'or-later-version-licensing</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p></h3>
+<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/or-later-version-licensing">'or-later-version-licensing</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p>

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-<h2>Status</h2><p>
+Status: draft
-<strong>Draft</strong></p>
+==Issue==
-<h2>Issue</h2>
+There is not a way to express that the user may choose, at their discretion, to following the terms and conditions of a specified license or any later version of that license. In some ways this is similar to a simple disjunctive licensing declaration. However, the set of licenses changes over time so separate way of expressing this licensing information is required.
-<p>There is not a way to express that the user may choose, at their
+==Use cases==
-discretion, to following the terms and conditions of a specified
-license or any later version of that license.  In some ways this is
-similar to a simple disjunctive licensing declaration.  However, the
-set of licenses changes over time so separate way of expressing this
-licensing information is required.</p>
-<h3>Use cases</h3>
+The set of use cases we need to be able to describe in SPDX is:
-<p>The set of use cases we need to be able to describe in SPDX is:</p>
+* A standard license of a particular version (such as GPL version 2) and every later version of that license
-<ul>
+==Proposal==
-<li><p>A standard license of a particular version (such as GPL version 2)
-    and every later version of that license</p></li>
-<li><p>A non-standard license of a particular version and every later
-    version of that license.</p></li>
-<li><p>Unversioned license declaration (such as "GPL").</p></li>
-</ul>
-−
-<h2>Proposal</h2>
-<p>Introduce a license set, <code>LicenseOrLaterVersion</code> that
+Introduce a license set, <code>LicenseOrLaterVersion</code> that explicitly represents a specify license all its later versions. It would be left to tools and/or humans to determine the actual licenses that should be included in this set at any specific point in time.
-explicitly represents a specify license all its later versions.  It
 would be left to tools and/or humans to determine the actual licenses
-that should be included in this set at any specific point in time.</p>
-<p>The definition of `License` would not change. The `DeclaredLicense` and `DetectedLicense` properties would be
+The definition of `License` would not change. The `DeclaredLicense` and `DetectedLicense` properties would be updated to allow their value to be a `License` or `LicenseOrLaterVersion`.
-updated to allow their value to be a `License` or `LicenseOrLaterVersion`.</p>
-<p> KES: Still not clear why the "+" notation already in the short form licenses is not sufficient.  It seems its either a shortform or a once of.   Shortform has "+", and non standard licenses are copied verbatim and this is not needed.
+KES: Still not clear why the "+" notation already in the short form licenses is not sufficient. It seems its either a shortform or a once of. Shortform has "+", and non standard licenses are copied verbatim and this is not needed.
-</p><h3>Examples</h3>
+==Examples==
-<h4>License or later version</h4>
+===License or later version===
-<pre><code>&lt;Package&gt;<br />  &lt;DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />    &lt;LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;<br />      &lt;BaseLicense rdf:resource="license:GPLv2" /&gt;<br />    &lt;/LicenseOrLaterVersion&gt;<br />  &lt;/DeclaredLicense&gt;<br />&lt;/Package&gt;</code></pre>
+  <Package>
-<h3>Changes</h3>
+==Changes==
-<p>These changes are available in the <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/or-later-version-licensing">'or-later-version-licensing</a> branch of <a href="https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git">https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git</a>.  A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.</p>
+These changes are available in the [https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec/tree/or-later-version-licensing 'or-later-version-licensing] branch of https://github.com/pezra/spdx-spec.git. A full version of the spec with these changes is attached, as is a patch file to implement these changes.

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