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Re: Automatically responding to accepted additions to the SPDX License List

Looks like a good message. If there's a page that shows the schedule for the next release that we can point the submitter at, that might give submitters more of an idea of when to expect the release

By Jim Vitrano · #3226 ·

Automatically responding to accepted additions to the SPDX License List

Dear all, I have good news! I've been able to create a CI workflow which responds to accepted license requests on GitHub automatically, letting everyone know that the license won't be visible on the

By Sebastian Crane · #3225 ·

Re: Matching Guidelines and English grammatical differences

Hi Richard, We have a list of "equivalent words" which was created early on to accommodate different spellings for the same words, e.g., license v. licence - see

By J Lovejoy · #3224 ·

Matching Guidelines and English grammatical differences

In Fedora a license has been submitted for review that seems to match HPND-sell-variant except that the word "appears" in HPND-sell-variant is "appear" in this

By Richard Fontana · #3223 ·

homework prior to call this week

Hi all, As per our “documentation release” - we are aiming to review licenses that don’t need legal discussion via Github issues. As per our guidance on license review, if "3 SPDX-legal team

By J Lovejoy · #3222 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

For what it's worth, looks like someone tried to come up with something along these lines, and called it the Worldwide Public Domain Dedication https://wpdd.info/wpdd.html Looks to be based on CC0,

By McCoy Smith · #3221 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

really, McCoy, you are not going to suggest https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-Patent.html ?!? Don’t be coy now… :) (McCoy drafted that license, for those who are not aware.) J. > > > >

By J Lovejoy · #3220 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

By McCoy Smith · #3219 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

It's interesting that you mention CC0, as it has recently been decided that CC0 is no longer suitable for Fedora code packages due to its explicit non-grant of patent licences. I imagine other

By Sebastian Crane · #3218 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

Dear Russ, The points you make are very pertinent indeed. I think that statements of the third type should probably be included in the SPDX License List, as they are usually very distinctive and

By Sebastian Crane · #3217 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

This was for OpenEmbedded-Core, there will be other issues in other layers which we'll no doubt hit as other they adopt the identifiers but it at least let us resolve things for our

By Richard Purdie · #3216 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

"J Lovejoy" <opensource@...> writes: I think it would be useful to understand the split between three classes of things that I suspect SPDX will want to treat differently: * A pure statement

By Russ Allbery · #3215 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

Hi Warner, McCoy, You both raise some good points which has made me realized I should clarify this topic a bit: First, yes, some "public domain dedications" or things

By J Lovejoy · #3214 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

Thanks Richard, that's interesting. I'm really surprised Yocto only ran into one example of this kind of thing though! On 8/16/22 4:01 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:

By J Lovejoy · #3213 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

I’m not sure SPDX makes qualitative assessments of licenses or statements (nor should it, since practically every license does have some degree of ambiguity). So a PD dedication that is

By McCoy Smith · #3212 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

I was using beerware as an example to ask the question: what separates it from PD, especially with the public domain dedications that try to work around EU law in different ways. Is it the grant of

By Warner Losh · #3211 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

There is an obligation in there (“as long as you retain this notice”) so it really is a license not a PD dedication (if something is PD, it comes with no obligations). Plus, beerware is already

By McCoy Smith · #3210 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

On a related question, there's several licenses that are close to the public domain. Eg: "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42): <phk@...> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you can do

By Warner Losh · #3209 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

I support the idea of Mike. In particular, this would help for both use and license compliance in (most) European countries. Please note that in many countries there is no "public domain" in

By Till Jaeger · #3208 ·

Re: public domain dedications proliferation

Thanks for the clarification Jilayne! If the idea is to collect information about the different forms used to say "this is in the public domain" with an eye towards option 3, then yes, I think your

By Steve Winslow · #3207 ·

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