Re: Question on two MIT-derivatives
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Alexios Zavras
Hi Christian,
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Thanks for reaching to the SPDX project! As this has purely to do with licenses, it may be better addressed to the legal working group at spdx-legal@.... Alternatively, feel free to raise your questions as issues on the license list GitHub repo, if you prefer: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML -- zvr -----Original Message-----
From: spdx@... <spdx@...> On Behalf Of Christian Ehrhardt Sent: Wednesday, 7 July, 2021 09:48 To: spdx@... Subject: [spdx] Question on two MIT-derivatives Hi SPDX, I was refreshing the license info on a Debian package and found two licenses that seemed to be MIT-variants that I wasn't sure about. The reason I looked at it was mostly technical as the current way to identify them was triggering a lintian warning, but as I said I wondered what would be correct. I was not finding the two derivatives in your license list at [1] nor as an exception in [2]. There are already a bunch of MIT-* identifiers, but none matched the two that I had. So I had no "official identifiers" to use and just came up with two for now. I changed the identifiers like - MIT(*) -> MIT-ibm - MIT(**) -> MIT-no-ad and that satisfies Lintian at least. The full text of those can be found at [3][4]. I'm full of questions: - having a look at them, would you think they should be added to your list and get assigned official identifiers? - Are these even licenses on their own that deserve an ID? - Would it need the project or License owner to do such a request? - I'm neither of that and just looked at it by accident - If needed I'd be ok to file an issue as outlined in [5] and discuss, but I'm not sure I could do much more on it. [1]:https://spdx.org/licenses/ [2]: https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html [3]: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/base64.c#L4 [4]: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/resolutionSet/libvmwarectrl.h#L4 [5]: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/license-inclusion-principles.md -- Christian Ehrhardt Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd Intel Deutschland GmbH Registered Address: Am Campeon 10, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 8853-0, www.intel.de <http://www.intel.de> Managing Directors: Christin Eisenschmid, Sharon Heck, Tiffany Doon Silva Chairperson of the Supervisory Board: Nicole Lau Registered Office: Munich Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 186928 |
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