Re: License of an open source license text
Philippe Ombredanne
Hi Richard:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:57 PM Richard Purdie wrote: Just to be really clear, the license ID of a given specificThen in this case you can take the same approach as Debian's packaging: your package in d) can be under its own license unrelated to the license of the things it contains. You could state that the license of the packaging of these license data is under a CC0-1.0. You are not making any assertion about the license of the licenses which are under whatever license they may be; and whatever these may be are self-contained in their own license texts. This is the approach I take in scancode. I bundle thousand license texts and I am not reporting any specific license for these license texts.. Instead I am only declaring that the license data set is under CC0-1.0 As an aside, this might make scancode's [1] processing a little more complicated ... but this could be fixed if we know we are looking at the license of Yocto packages somehow. -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne [1] https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/612128b46d183934bda7d0c7e224a313fc54d227/meta-oe/classes/scancode.bbclass
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