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SPDX Legal Team,
On today's call, we did not have a quorum present for decisions regarding the addition of new licenses to the SPDX License List from the list of "Fedora Good Licenses". Since we have other items that are pending the completion of this review, we have decided to keep the review moving by completing the remaining licenses via email.
We hope to establish a weekly cadence for the review of these licenses in order to make our way through the 100+ remaining licenses before the Linux Collaboration Summit starts on March 26. If we have agreement among 3 members with no dissenting opinions or outstanding questions, then the license will be marked "approved" on the master Tracking Sheet (link available at bottom of email).
Listed below are the 12 licenses from the Fedora list that were marked for review this week. Please reply to this email string with your input regarding any or all of these 12 licenses. Feel free to mark up the table below, edit the live Tracking Sheet, or just describe your feedback in email. Your participation is greatly appreciated!
| License Full Name | Fedora Short Name | License URL | Issues | Comments | Proposed Short Identifier |
| Borceux license | Borceux | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Borceux | Permissive license. May be single package license. | JL: how to deal with individual filenames, though? ZW: very narrow (lists files) DC: way too file-specific. Recommend that we do not add this one. | Borceux |
| Copyright Attribution Only | Copyright only | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CopyrightOnly | Simple "license" that requires copyright only | DC: I'm not sure that the SPDX license list really needs these kinds of licenses. Being short and simple (simplistic) they might be best provided as text in an SPDX file rather than by a license name. | ? |
| Crystal Stacker License | Crystal Stacker | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CrystalStacker | Permissive license. May be single package license. | ZW: limited use, but open to adding JL: license on Fedora page does not match (exactly) that found in v1.5 download. also, there appears to be two different variations of a license in the download (see email I sent for details) | Crystal |
| diffmark license | diffmark | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/diffmark | License text "1. you can do what you want with it; 2. I refuse any responsibility for the consequences" May be single package license | ZW: add (limited use, but could grow: http://geeksta.net/geeklog/free-software-content-licenses/) | diffmark |
| DOC License | DOC | http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html | Permissive license. May be single package license, but package is oft used. | ZW: suggest adding (how to handle specific TM references?) | DOC |
| Dotseqn License | Dotseqn | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Dotseqn | Permissive license. Appears to be single file/package | ZW: single package license | Dotseqn |
| DSDP License | DSDP | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/DSDP | MIT like license. | ZW: unique license; not reusable | DSDP |
| dvipdfm License | dvipdfm | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/dvipdfm | Permissive license. May be a one time license | ZW: add (appears to have traction with colleges) | dvipdfm |
| eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0 | eGenix | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/eGenix.com_Public_License_1.1.0 | Based on CNRI license and may be for one project. Official license site http://www.egenix.com/products/eGenix.com-Public-License-1.1.0.pdf | ZW: add | eGenix |
| Enlightenment License (e16) | MIT with advertising | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT_With_Advertising | MIT variant | ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software, its documentation and marketing & publicity materials, and acknowledgment shall be given in the documentation, materials and software packages that this Software was used." | Enlightenment |
| enna License | MIT | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#enna | MIT variant | ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no source code of this software is made available publicly. This includes acknowledgments in either Copyright notices, Manuals, Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with any product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or dynamically), but only to the software provided." | enna |
| Eurosym License | Eurosym | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Eurosym | Copyleft license. German law applies | ZW: add | Eurosym |
RESOURCES
- License Review Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVnI0dGKEo1dENVVHFNeG5hQjAyYjQ3bm1VVUdjOFE#gid=1
- Fedora Good Licenses: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses
- SPDX License List: http://spdx.org/licenses/
- SPDX Licenses Under Consideration: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/License_List/Licenses_Under_Consideration#Licenses_Under_Consideration
Zak White
Entente Software LLC
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Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: (650) 489-6851
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570 El Camino Real #150-103
Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: (650) 489-6851
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zwhite@...
Quick reminder to the group: please submit your feedback on the matter of adding the below-identified licenses to the SPDX License List. Your timely submissions will allow us to discuss outstanding issues at tomorrow's bi-weekly Legal Team call. Thanks!
Zak White
Entente Software LLC
570 El Camino Real #150-103
Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: (650) 489-6851
zwhite@...
Entente Software LLC
570 El Camino Real #150-103
Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: (650) 489-6851
zwhite@...
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fedora License List Review
From: <zwhite@...>
Date: Thu, February 20, 2014 2:47 pm
To: spdx-legal@...
SPDX Legal Team,On today's call, we did not have a quorum present for decisions regarding the addition of new licenses to the SPDX License List from the list of "Fedora Good Licenses". Since we have other items that are pending the completion of this review, we have decided to keep the review moving by completing the remaining licenses via email.We hope to establish a weekly cadence for the review of these licenses in order to make our way through the 100+ remaining licenses before the Linux Collaboration Summit starts on March 26. If we have agreement among 3 members with no dissenting opinions or outstanding questions, then the license will be marked "approved" on the master Tracking Sheet (link available at bottom of email).Listed below are the 12 licenses from the Fedora list that were marked for review this week. Please reply to this email string with your input regarding any or all of these 12 licenses. Feel free to mark up the table below, edit the live Tracking Sheet, or just describe your feedback in email. Your participation is greatly appreciated!
License
Full
NameFedora
Short
NameLicense
URLIssues Comments Proposed
Short
IdentifierBorceux license Borceux https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Borceux Permissive license. May be single package license. JL: how to deal with individual filenames, though?
ZW: very narrow (lists files)
DC: way too file-specific. Recommend that we do not add this one.Borceux Copyright Attribution Only Copyright only https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CopyrightOnly Simple "license" that requires copyright only DC: I'm not sure that the SPDX license list really needs these kinds of licenses. Being short and simple (simplistic) they might be best provided as text in an SPDX file rather than by a license name. ? Crystal Stacker License Crystal Stacker https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CrystalStacker Permissive license. May be single package license. ZW: limited use, but open to adding
JL: license on Fedora page does not match (exactly) that found in v1.5 download. also, there appears to be two different variations of a license in the download (see email I sent for details)Crystal diffmark license diffmark https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/diffmark License text "1. you can do what you want with it; 2. I refuse any responsibility for the consequences" May be single package license ZW: add (limited use, but could grow: http://geeksta.net/geeklog/free-software-content-licenses/)
diffmark DOC License DOC http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html Permissive license. May be single package license, but package is oft used. ZW: suggest adding (how to handle specific TM references?) DOC Dotseqn License Dotseqn https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Dotseqn Permissive license. Appears to be single file/package ZW: single package license Dotseqn DSDP License DSDP https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/DSDP MIT like license. ZW: unique license; not reusable DSDP dvipdfm License dvipdfm https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/dvipdfm Permissive license. May be a one time license ZW: add (appears to have traction with colleges) dvipdfm eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0 eGenix https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/eGenix.com_Public_License_1.1.0 Based on CNRI license and may be for one project. Official license site http://www.egenix.com/products/eGenix.com-Public-License-1.1.0.pdf ZW: add eGenix Enlightenment License (e16) MIT with advertising https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT_With_Advertising MIT variant ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software, its documentation and marketing & publicity materials, and acknowledgment shall be given in the documentation, materials and software packages that this Software was used." Enlightenment enna License MIT https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#enna MIT variant
ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no source code of this software is made available publicly. This includes acknowledgments in either Copyright notices, Manuals, Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with any product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or dynamically), but only to the software provided." enna Eurosym License Eurosym https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Eurosym Copyleft license. German law applies ZW: add Eurosym RESOURCES
- License Review Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVnI0dGKEo1dENVVHFNeG5hQjAyYjQ3bm1VVUdjOFE#gid=1
- Fedora Good Licenses: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses
- SPDX License List: http://spdx.org/licenses/
- SPDX Licenses Under Consideration: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/License_List/Licenses_Under_Consideration#Licenses_Under_Consideration
Zak WhiteEntente Software LLC
570 El Camino Real #150-103
Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: (650) 489-6851
zwhite@...
J Lovejoy
Thanks for the reminder, Zac!
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yes, folks, please, please, please help out on this task!! it’s really quite easy! The inclination is to add any license on the Fedora “good” license list to the SPDX License List, so you only need to consider if there is some critical reason to not do so, the appropriate short identifier if adding (also inclination to use whatever Fedora uses, but need to make sure there is some consistency also with SPDX naming protocol), and whether the license needs any “templatizing” (most won’t).
I have been working on adding my comments to as many licenses as possible and started to catalog a list of outstanding issues, and so forth. I hope to have that out to the list before our meeting tomorrow so that people can review and we can discuss.
Cheers,
Jilayne
On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:49 AM, zwhite@... wrote:
_______________________________________________Quick reminder to the group: please submit your feedback on the matter of adding the below-identified licenses to the SPDX License List. Your timely submissions will allow us to discuss outstanding issues at tomorrow's bi-weekly Legal Team call. Thanks!Zak White
Entente Software LLC
570 El Camino Real #150-103
Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone: (650) 489-6851
zwhite@...-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fedora License List Review
From: <zwhite@...>
Date: Thu, February 20, 2014 2:47 pm
To: spdx-legal@...
SPDX Legal Team,On today's call, we did not have a quorum present for decisions regarding the addition of new licenses to the SPDX License List from the list of "Fedora Good Licenses". Since we have other items that are pending the completion of this review, we have decided to keep the review moving by completing the remaining licenses via email.We hope to establish a weekly cadence for the review of these licenses in order to make our way through the 100+ remaining licenses before the Linux Collaboration Summit starts on March 26. If we have agreement among 3 members with no dissenting opinions or outstanding questions, then the license will be marked "approved" on the master Tracking Sheet (link available at bottom of email).Listed below are the 12 licenses from the Fedora list that were marked for review this week. Please reply to this email string with your input regarding any or all of these 12 licenses. Feel free to mark up the table below, edit the live Tracking Sheet, or just describe your feedback in email. Your participation is greatly appreciated!
License
Full
NameFedora
Short
NameLicense
URLIssues Comments Proposed
Short
IdentifierBorceux license Borceux https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Borceux Permissive license. May be single package license. JL: how to deal with individual filenames, though?
ZW: very narrow (lists files)
DC: way too file-specific. Recommend that we do not add this one.Borceux Copyright Attribution Only Copyright only https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CopyrightOnly Simple "license" that requires copyright only DC: I'm not sure that the SPDX license list really needs these kinds of licenses. Being short and simple (simplistic) they might be best provided as text in an SPDX file rather than by a license name. ? Crystal Stacker License Crystal Stacker https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CrystalStacker Permissive license. May be single package license. ZW: limited use, but open to adding
JL: license on Fedora page does not match (exactly) that found in v1.5 download. also, there appears to be two different variations of a license in the download (see email I sent for details)Crystal diffmark license diffmark https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/diffmark License text "1. you can do what you want with it; 2. I refuse any responsibility for the consequences" May be single package license ZW: add (limited use, but could grow: http://geeksta.net/geeklog/free-software-content-licenses/)
diffmark DOC License DOC http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html Permissive license. May be single package license, but package is oft used. ZW: suggest adding (how to handle specific TM references?) DOC Dotseqn License Dotseqn https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Dotseqn Permissive license. Appears to be single file/package ZW: single package license Dotseqn DSDP License DSDP https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/DSDP MIT like license. ZW: unique license; not reusable DSDP dvipdfm License dvipdfm https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/dvipdfm Permissive license. May be a one time license ZW: add (appears to have traction with colleges) dvipdfm eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0 eGenix https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/eGenix.com_Public_License_1.1.0 Based on CNRI license and may be for one project. Official license site http://www.egenix.com/products/eGenix.com-Public-License-1.1.0.pdf ZW: add eGenix Enlightenment License (e16) MIT with advertising https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT_With_Advertising MIT variant ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software, its documentation and marketing & publicity materials, and acknowledgment shall be given in the documentation, materials and software packages that this Software was used." Enlightenment enna License MIT https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#enna MIT variant
ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no source code of this software is made available publicly. This includes acknowledgments in either Copyright notices, Manuals, Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with any product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or dynamically), but only to the software provided." enna Eurosym License Eurosym https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Eurosym Copyleft license. German law applies ZW: add Eurosym RESOURCES
- License Review Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVnI0dGKEo1dENVVHFNeG5hQjAyYjQ3bm1VVUdjOFE#gid=1
- Fedora Good Licenses: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses
- SPDX License List: http://spdx.org/licenses/
- SPDX Licenses Under Consideration: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/License_List/Licenses_Under_Consideration#Licenses_Under_Consideration
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J Lovejoy
Hi all,
For purposes of the meeting, let’s discuss some of the Fedora licenses we had tagged to add, but have questions - 3 below
A few items that we tagged as “needs further review” or I had a question about:
- Abstyles - we queued that one. Let’s make a decision. Also need to consider if this license needs a template for matching purposes
- Crossword License - we are going to add this, but I have a question as to whether it needs a template for matching purposes
- Copyright Attribution Only - I’d agree we shouldn’t add this. there are so many variations of these one-liners, I'd agree it's probably better captured via the Lic-Ref function in the spec
There are other licenses that we might was to get more info about from Fedora, I’ve started a list of those here:
Licenses that we should communicate with Fedora about:
The following licenses we decided not to add to the SPDX License List. I added a note that we might want to get further info from Fedora about usage and variations before making that final call. I highlighted the note section in green so we’d remember.
- BeOpen Open Source License Agreement Version 1
- Bibtex License
- BeOpen Open Source License Agreement Version 1
- Bibtex License
- Borceux license
- BSD License (original) - need to check with Fedora if this is considered specific to UC Regents or if it could contain any copyright holder’s name, which will impact which SPDX License List short identifier it is equivalent to.
- Crystal Stacker License - license on Fedora page does not match (exactly) that found in v1.5 download. also, there appears to be two different variations of a license in the download (I sent an email about this previously, need to find). Should ask Fedora about these variations
… more to add to the ‘ask Fedora’ list, but perhaps we should just wait until we’ve gotten through the whole list?
Jilayne
On Feb 20, 2014, at 2:47 PM, zwhite@... wrote:
_______________________________________________SPDX Legal Team,On today's call, we did not have a quorum present for decisions regarding the addition of new licenses to the SPDX License List from the list of "Fedora Good Licenses". Since we have other items that are pending the completion of this review, we have decided to keep the review moving by completing the remaining licenses via email.We hope to establish a weekly cadence for the review of these licenses in order to make our way through the 100+ remaining licenses before the Linux Collaboration Summit starts on March 26. If we have agreement among 3 members with no dissenting opinions or outstanding questions, then the license will be marked "approved" on the master Tracking Sheet (link available at bottom of email).Listed below are the 12 licenses from the Fedora list that were marked for review this week. Please reply to this email string with your input regarding any or all of these 12 licenses. Feel free to mark up the table below, edit the live Tracking Sheet, or just describe your feedback in email. Your participation is greatly appreciated!
License
Full
NameFedora
Short
NameLicense
URLIssues Comments Proposed
Short
IdentifierBorceux license Borceux https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Borceux Permissive license. May be single package license. JL: how to deal with individual filenames, though?
ZW: very narrow (lists files)
DC: way too file-specific. Recommend that we do not add this one.Borceux Copyright Attribution Only Copyright only https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CopyrightOnly Simple "license" that requires copyright only DC: I'm not sure that the SPDX license list really needs these kinds of licenses. Being short and simple (simplistic) they might be best provided as text in an SPDX file rather than by a license name. ? Crystal Stacker License Crystal Stacker https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CrystalStacker Permissive license. May be single package license. ZW: limited use, but open to adding
JL: license on Fedora page does not match (exactly) that found in v1.5 download. also, there appears to be two different variations of a license in the download (see email I sent for details)Crystal diffmark license diffmark https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/diffmark License text "1. you can do what you want with it; 2. I refuse any responsibility for the consequences" May be single package license ZW: add (limited use, but could grow: http://geeksta.net/geeklog/free-software-content-licenses/)
diffmark DOC License DOC http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html Permissive license. May be single package license, but package is oft used. ZW: suggest adding (how to handle specific TM references?) DOC Dotseqn License Dotseqn https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Dotseqn Permissive license. Appears to be single file/package ZW: single package license Dotseqn DSDP License DSDP https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/DSDP MIT like license. ZW: unique license; not reusable DSDP dvipdfm License dvipdfm https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/dvipdfm Permissive license. May be a one time license ZW: add (appears to have traction with colleges) dvipdfm eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0 eGenix https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/eGenix.com_Public_License_1.1.0 Based on CNRI license and may be for one project. Official license site http://www.egenix.com/products/eGenix.com-Public-License-1.1.0.pdf ZW: add eGenix Enlightenment License (e16) MIT with advertising https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT_With_Advertising MIT variant ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software, its documentation and marketing & publicity materials, and acknowledgment shall be given in the documentation, materials and software packages that this Software was used." Enlightenment enna License MIT https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#enna MIT variant
ZW: changes "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." to "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no source code of this software is made available publicly. This includes acknowledgments in either Copyright notices, Manuals, Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with any product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or dynamically), but only to the software provided." enna Eurosym License Eurosym https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Eurosym Copyleft license. German law applies ZW: add Eurosym RESOURCES
- License Review Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVnI0dGKEo1dENVVHFNeG5hQjAyYjQ3bm1VVUdjOFE#gid=1
- Fedora Good Licenses: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses
- SPDX License List: http://spdx.org/licenses/
- SPDX Licenses Under Consideration: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/License_List/Licenses_Under_Consideration#Licenses_Under_Consideration
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