Just a reminder that the regularly scheduled SPDX Legal team meeting is beginning momentarily, on our usual Jitsi link: https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting Best, Steve

Hi Till, Regarding the Unicode Terms of Use: since there is a new and substantively different set of terms at https://www.unicode.org/copyright.html, I agree it would be appropriate to add them to the

Whoops -- accidentally just sent this to Till, re-sending to the full list: = = = = = Hi Till, please see my thoughts inline below: [SDW] From a quick search on the Internet Archive, that URL appears

Hello all, The version 3.20 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. 40 (!) new licenses / exceptions were added to the list: AdaCore-doc Autoconf-exception-gen

Thanks all for your comments in this thread. I'm not going to try to reply here to every comment, but wanted to note a few pieces that might be informative to folks who are less deep in the SPDX licen

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Hello all, The version 3.19 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. 5 new licenses / exceptions were added to the list: 1. checkmk 2. FSFULLRWD 3. Knuth-CTAN 4

Hi all, We're cancelling the SPDX legal team call for tomorrow, Nov. 24 due to the US holiday. Looking forward to picking up again in December. If you have some spare time and just can't get enough li

Hi Peter, Thanks for raising this (and glad the license templates have been useful for you!) Your email is timely, as we actually discussed a related point (though not specific to CC-BY-4.0) during th

Hi all, Sending a quick reminder that the SPDX Legal Team call will be starting shortly (at the top of the hour). We'll be focusing on the open documentation tasks for 3.19, to confirm on who is takin

Hi all, just a quick reminder that the SPDX Legal Team call will be starting shortly. We'll be focusing on the following topics: * quick look at #1603 - x11vnc-openssl-exception * discuss release proc

Jilayne -- yes, I'd be open to a lighter-weight or streamlined approach to approving licenses submitted from use in distros such as Debian and Fedora. In these cases we have greater confidence that th

I'd mostly echo Gary's comments here. #1 is the option that enables someone to be sure that the ID they're using should validate with then-current tooling. #2 is workable for folks who don't care abou

Hi David, Good timing: the BigScience Open RAIL-M License was just submitted for consideration a few days ago. [1] The license inclusion principles [2] contemplate that licenses to be added to the lis

Sebastian, this is awesome! I did have the same reaction as Alexios. I think we'll want to tweak the wording, to clarify the process -- e.g. that we've approved it to add, but that it'll still need th

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 pr

Hi Jilayne, since you asked for input ASAP, here are a few immediate gut reactions :) I think getting the data of seeing a bunch of different ways that people said "this code is released into the publ

Hello all, The version 3.18 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. 10 new licenses / exceptions were added to the list: CC-BY-3.0-IGO GStreamer-exception-2005

Jilayne, this is awesome news -- thanks for passing it along! Looking forward to us working with the Fedora community to support them adding SPDX license IDs across the distro. Steve