Issue: Linux Foundation updated SPDX license list

In second version of SPDX Specification, some abbreviations are deprecated and replaced, but it does not accept them.

For example: GPL-3.0 now is GPL-3.0-only

When I use new abbreviations, an error is occurred:

ошибка: cannot read snap file: cannot validate license
              "GPL-3.0-or-later": unknown license: GPL-3.0-or-later

Hello!

Though I don’t recall this being specified in our documentation, the snap ecosystem only supports SPDX 2.0 identifiers. If you want to use GPL-3.0 or later, you need to use the old identifier for it, which is GPL-3.0+.

See Keeping up with SPDX license identifier updates for more discussion on this topic.

Cheers,

  • Daniel
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