From: spdx-tech-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-tech-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Tom Incorvia
Sent: Dienstag, 5. März 2013 12:38
To: guillaume.rousseau@...; spdx-legal@...; spdx-tech@...
Subject: RE: A non-standard "permissive" license
Hi Guillaume and SPDX Legal,
I believe that we will be best served by having as broad a license list as possible, and to have every license on the list be supported.
If the Leptonica license occurs in the wild and has consistent, matchable license text, lets vet it an put it into the SPDX list just like any other license.
Thanks,
Tom
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Indeed we have been many time through the issue concerning "rare license".
I understand very well that spdx can not cover/support every licenses. But should be able to extend internal license knowledge base guarantying there will be no license acronym conflict in the further versions of SPDX.
Could we implement a rule saying that SPDX acronym will never start by "M-" which will allow us to implement specific acronym miscellaneous licenses not supported by spdx.
Another way to do it could be to allow 2 acronyms in the standard like SPDX-GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0 ?
I prefer the first one.
I don't remember if this point has already been pointed out and discussed so I put legal and tech mailing list in cc.
Guillaume
Le 05/03/13 00:34, Dennis Clark a écrit :
This license text appears to be from Leptonica:
The tortured grammar of this sentence is unique and I don't think it can be found in any of the SPDX licenses:
"- No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the
- consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in
- writing."
A very rare license indeed!
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office) <scott.lamons@...> wrote:
We came across this license in a recent open source review. Fossology mis-identified this as GPL which is clearly a bug and it's being fixed. However, my question is... would this match any existing SPDX license?
- Copyright (C) 2001 XXX. All rights reserved.
- This software is distributed in the hope that it will be
- useful, but with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
- No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the
- consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in
- writing. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and
- redistribute this source code, for commercial or non-commercial
- purposes, with the following restrictions: (1) the origin of this
- source code must not be misrepresented; (2) modified versions must
- be plainly marked as such; and (3) this notice may not be removed
- or altered from any source or modified source distribution.
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