All: A few items for today's SPDX Legal Workstream Meeting: (A) For those not in the US, I provided International dial in numbers below. (B) For those in Boston for the Project Harmony meeting,

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I hada question regarding clarifying the zlib and libpng licenses versus what theOSI lists as the zlib/libpng license on their list. Perhaps Tom, Martin,or Jeff can shed some light on this?

Fedora treats these two licenses as functionally identical, and calls them both "zlib". The third license looks to just be a templated version of the zlib license. ~tom == Fedora Project

So, do you think we should only list the OSI template version, using their name, "zlib/libpng license" and not include the two package-specific licenses on our initial list? Jilayne

Yes, but I think the general trend for the SPDX initiative has been that any difference in wording (with the possible exception of copyright holder identifiers), even if it has no effect on the rights

This is related to my question in the last legal team conference call: How to deal with the billions of 'BSD-style'-licenses, the only difference of which is the Copyright notice? The answer was to

Sure, but in the case of libpng's license, the difference is more significant than Copyright holder identifiers. It doesn't fundamentally change the license's meaning, but it is technically different

Instead of all three variations, we could just have the OSI one, which is basically the zlib license template (no specific copyright) and then the specific libpng license, since it does have some

I told everyone we were planning to have it, and then forgot myself. Holiday brain I guess. We’ll reconvene post-holidays. Kim On Thu 12/23/10 9:09 AM, "Philip Odence" <podence@...> wrote: Kim

For SPDX, I suppose it makes sense to take the templated zlib and call it "zlib", and call the libpng variant "libpng", even though I don't think Fedora will ever make that

http://www.spdx.org/wiki/working-version-license-list Itemsof note: Olderversions of various licenses have been added. Zlib andlibpng licenses are both included. Onlyremaining issue that I

Hi Jilayne, Thanks for getting the next rev of the license list out! Regarding the BSD licenses: I did some of the original work on the BSD licenses. Below is the post from June 2010. Fine

Hello SPDX, I have been lurking in the background for a while now; I maintain man(1) and I keep a DOAP file on the project site, I thought I would take a crack at SPDX:

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To avoid any confusion, I wanted to make clear that the next SPDX General Meeting is next Thursday, January 13. There would have been a meeting last week, but we cancelled it due to the holidays; Jan