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Licence abbreviations?
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dmg
Hi Everybody,
is there a place where the abbreviations (as to be used in the SPDX document) are listed? This page only lists the full names. http://www.spdx.org/licenses/ -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . |
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Jilayne Lovejoy <Jlovejoy@...>
Daniel,
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The license list spreadsheet is located here: http://spdx.org/wiki/working-version-license-list The most recent version is 1.4 and will have a column with the short names therein. The associated word doc just has some explanations regarding the fields, etc. Jilayne -----Original Message-----
From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] On Behalf Of D M German Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 6:43 PM To: spdx@... Subject: Licence abbreviations? Hi Everybody, is there a place where the abbreviations (as to be used in the SPDX document) are listed? This page only lists the full names. http://www.spdx.org/licenses/ -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . _______________________________________________ Spdx mailing list Spdx@... https://fossbazaar.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx |
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dmg
Thanks Jylayne,
one thing that would be useful (for those of us wanting to identify the license of a file) is to have examples of the use of each license (not the license itself, but how it is used). Many of these licenses, I haven't seen them in the wild. ---dmg On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jilayne Lovejoy <Jlovejoy@...> wrote: Daniel, -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org |
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Jilayne Lovejoy <Jlovejoy@...>
What kind of example did you have in mind? Do you mean an example of a particular software package that uses a particular license?
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Sent from J's iPhone On Jan 13, 2011, at 7:22 PM, "dmg" <dmg@...> wrote:
Thanks Jylayne, |
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dmg
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jilayne Lovejoy
<Jlovejoy@...> wrote: What kind of example did you have in mind? Do you mean an example of a particular software package that uses a particular license?A file that contains it. For example, this is the usage of the GPL-2.0+ (excerpted from a Bison file): usage is very different from the text of the license itself. --dmg --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /* A Bison parser, made by GNU Bison 1.875. */ /* Skeleton parser for Yacc-like parsing with Bison, Copyright (C) 1984, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org |
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Jilayne Lovejoy <Jlovejoy@...>
I am taking what you refer to as 'how it is used' to be the equivalent
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of the header information that is included in the file. When making the License List, that column was defined to only being propagated if the license had a specific header text suggested. Obviously, a small number of licenses actually include this in the license. If the license did not make this suggestion, then that column is blank in the list. If we don't constrain this in some way, then the possibilities would be endless. Even with the shorter licenses, like MIT, while often the whole license is included in the file, sometimes I have seen a simple statement saying something like "this is under the MIT license" I'm not sure if that is helpful, but hopefully that explains what that column means in the License List (the Word document with the list "protocols" should explain this and the same for each column) -----Original Message-----
From: dmgerman@... [mailto:dmgerman@...] On Behalf Of dmg Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:36 PM To: Jilayne Lovejoy Cc: spdx@... Subject: Re: Licence abbreviations? On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jilayne Lovejoy <Jlovejoy@...> wrote: What kind of example did you have in mind? Do you mean an example of aparticular software package that uses a particular license? A file that contains it. For example, this is the usage of the GPL-2.0+ (excerpted from a Bison file): usage is very different from the text of the license itself. --dmg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- /* A Bison parser, made by GNU Bison 1.875. */ /* Skeleton parser for Yacc-like parsing with Bison, Copyright (C) 1984, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org |
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