HI Mike,

Thanks for the info.

Regarding the other versions of OGL, could you provide links to those?

As for non-software licenses and the project mentioned below, could I
ask you to join an SPDX Legal call in order to discuss, perhaps one of
the calls in July?

Thanks,
Jilayne

SPDX Legal Team co-lead
opensource@... <mailto:opensource@...>

On Jun 6, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml@...
<mailto:ml@...>> wrote:

On 06/05/2015 02:33 AM, Matt Smith wrote:

1. Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or exception.
*Open Government License*

2. Provide a proposed Short Identifier.
*OGL*

I'm not sure it should matter for SPDX but noting that there are two
previous versions of the OGL from the UK and now many other OGLs from
other jurisdictions. OGL-3.0 or OGL-UK or OGL-UK-3.0 would address one
of both of those.

I actually joined this list because I eventually intended to ask
whether SPDX is interested in including additional licenses not
primarily intended for software (it includes some now) such as various
OGLs. Seems like a good prompt to finally do that. :)

My reason for asking is that I'm involved in opendefinition.org
<http://opendefinition.org/> sort of a non-software analogue to the
OSD. The OD project has made some half-hearted attempts to collect
license texts and metadata but it'd be more effective to feed into a
better maintained project, ie SPDX. One completed
issue https://github.com/okfn/licenses/issues/35 and another stale
one https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/issues/27 as confusing
background for this.

If there's interest from SPDX I or someone else involved in OD would
propose for inclusion in SPDX those licenses OD as approved but which
are not currently in SPDX, seehttp://opendefinition.org/licenses/

Mike
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