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Use SPDX identifiers for licenses #2605

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Before:

matrix.org$ grep -hr licence ./content/ecosystem | sort | uniq
licence = "AFL-3.0"
licence = "AGPL-3.0"
licence = "AGPL-3.0-only OR Element Commercial License"
licence = "AGPL-3.0-only"
licence = "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
licence = "AGPLv3"
licence = "Apache-2.0 OR MIT"
licence = "Apache-2.0"
licence = "Artistic2"
licence = "BSD"
licence = "CC0-1.0"
licence = "EUPL-1.2"
licence = "GNU GPLv3"
licence = "GPL-1.0-or-later"
licence = "GPL-2.0-only"
licence = "GPL-3.0"
licence = "GPL-3.0-only"
licence = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
licence = "ISC"
licence = "LGPL-2.1-only"
licence = "LGPL-3.0-or-later"
licence = "MIT"
licence = "MIT-Modern-Variant"
licence = "MPL-2.0"
licence = "None"
licence = "Unknown"
licence = "WTFPL"

After:

matrix.org$ grep -hr licence ./content/ecosystem | sort | uniq
licence = "AFL-3.0"
licence = "AGPL-3.0-only OR Element Commercial License"
licence = "AGPL-3.0-only"
licence = "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
licence = "Apache-2.0 OR MIT"
licence = "Apache-2.0"
licence = "Artistic-2.0"
licence = "BSD"
licence = "CC0-1.0"
licence = "EUPL-1.2"
licence = "GPL-1.0-or-later"
licence = "GPL-2.0-only"
licence = "GPL-3.0-only"
licence = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
licence = "ISC"
licence = "LGPL-2.1-only"
licence = "LGPL-3.0-or-later"
licence = "MIT"
licence = "MIT-Modern-Variant"
licence = "MPL-2.0"
licence = "None"
licence = "WTFPL"

Not sure what to do about

as the license text is not assigned an SPDX identifier matrix-construct/construct#203.

For licenses in the GPL family: when there was no reason to assume
-or-later I used -only. Of course, when -or-later was stated in the
source code or documentation, I used it:

Chatty
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty/-/blob/1bf14775c548d7d54ac0154322c7a70f3c285504/src/chatty-application.c#L5-L8
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