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SPDX should take a stronger stance against vanity/promotional licenses

As I've been following the issue queue for github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues over the past several months, it seems to me that you get a significant number of license submissions like this

By Richard Fontana · #3306 ·

[ANNOUNCE] License and Security Compliance tools users and developers meeting on Feb. 3rd 2023, one day before FOSDEM in Brussels

Hi: If you drop by FOSDEM, there is this one day event before FOSDEM, on Feb. 3rd 2023, in

By Philippe Ombredanne · #3305 ·

New version of the SPDX Online Tools

I just finished publishing a new version of the SPDX online tools. It solves a couple of issues with the license submission utility and upgrades the NTIA Conformance Checker with an improved

By Gary O'Neall · #3304 ·

joint legal and tech call Thursday, Jan 12th - Change Proposal: ExceptionRef

Hi all, This is a reminder that Thursday, Jan 12th at the regular legal-team call time, we will have a joint call for the tech and legal teams to discuss the change

By J Lovejoy · #3303 ·

Invitation: SPDX Legal Team - 4th Thursdays 2023 @ Monthly from 12pm to 1pm on the fourth Thursday from Thu Jan 26 to Mon Jan 1, 2024 (EST) (spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org)

SPDX Legal Team - 4th Thursdays 2023 https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting WhenMonthly from 12pm to 1pm on the fourth Thursday from Thursday Jan 26 to Monday

By Steve Winslow · #3302 ·

Invitation: SPDX Legal Team - 2nd Thursdays 2023 @ Monthly from 12pm to 1pm on the second Thursday from Thu Jan 12 to Mon Jan 1, 2024 (EST) (spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org)

SPDX Legal Team - 2nd Thursdays 2023 https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting WhenMonthly from 12pm to 1pm on the second Thursday from Thursday Jan 12 to Monday

By Steve Winslow · #3301 ·

Re: Open source licensing discovery

Hello Thanks for sharing. Can you compare your work to OSADL's checklists[0]? Is there a way to compare two licenses via a call to your server? Is there a way to fetch the data (JSON, txt...)? Is

By Henrik Sandklef · #3300 ·

Re: SPDX License Diff browser extension not producing report

I just checked on my Chrome and Firefox and they both worked for me. I'm using Firefox version 108.0.1 64 bit on Windows 11. Maybe something specific to the Debian version of Firefox? Gary

By Gary O'Neall · #3299 ·

SPDX License Diff browser extension not producing report

Dear all, Recently the SPDX License Diff browser extension has ceased to work for me. Selecting a piece of text and running the plugin displays the 'Processing...' progress bar, but no report is

By Sebastian Crane · #3298 ·

SPDX-legal meeting - reviewing and making PRs for licenses

Hi all, As discussed on our last call, we'll have our regularly scheduled meeting Thurs, Dec 22 at noon Eastern US time. We'll use the time to go through the review of a

By J Lovejoy · #3297 ·

Re: Open source licensing discovery

Hi Pierre and Jonas, Thank you Pierre for answering the feedback questionnaire. I call the other spdx-legal members to do so! Below are my answers. The manuscript I shared is intended to give more

By Sihem Ben Sassi · #3296 ·

Re: Open source licensing discovery

Quoting Pierre Tardy (2022-12-16 09:51:52) AGPL defines requirements for a licensor - i.e. anyone else than the author. That said, I am also interested in access to the code - especially since it is

By Jonas Smedegaard · #3295 ·

Re: Open source licensing discovery

Hi Sihem, Thanks for sharing your work with the community, and congrats for the release! Here are a few comments that come to my mind: - I don't see any reference in your paper about

By Pierre Tardy · #3294 ·

Open source licensing discovery

Dear Spdx-legal community, Improving open source licensing discovery and automating licenses processing are shared aims. From my side,and as first step, I am coming up with a unified description

By Sihem Ben Sassi · #3293 ·

Re: Mismatches between OSI and SPDX

Hi all, Thanks for the swift replies and sharing some background information. While I knew that some mismatches have been brought up in the past, I wanted to understand it myself and therefore

By Max Mehl · #3292 ·

Re: Mismatches between OSI and SPDX

Awesome, Gary! Thanks for the update. Looks like some of the items listed in the issue you link to are on Max's list, so that's good. Jilayne On 12/9/22 12:12 PM, Gary

By J Lovejoy · #3291 ·

Re: Mismatches between OSI and SPDX

Hi again Max, and thanks Richard for filling in on some of this. Max - While you are not the first person who has asked about some of these, you might be the first person to

By J Lovejoy · #3290 ·

Change proposal, 2023 meeting schedule, etc.

Hi SPDX legal and tech teams, I’m cross-posting this for wider visibility as some of this impacts both teams: In regard to legal team meetings for the rest of 2022: we will have our regularly

By J Lovejoy · #3289 ·

Re: Mismatches between OSI and SPDX

One more input on this discussion - I've been collaborating with OSI on a more automated way of keeping the SPDX and OSI license lists in sync. This issue tracks the remaining items that need

By Gary O'Neall · #3288 ·

Re: Mismatches between OSI and SPDX

Not speaking for SPDX or OSI: To some degree this is a known problem, and possibly viewable as not a problem in some cases. Some issues I see embodied in your list: 1. In some cases licenses

By Richard Fontana · #3287 ·

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