Re: [spdx] "-only" and "-or-later" identifiers for EUPL licenses?

2024-05-12 Thread J Lovejoy
Thanks Patrice - this was a good reminder that I should write up a longer explanation (rather than just pointing to the blog posts) as it is a question that comes up often enough to warrant recording a longer explanation. I thought I had put something in the FAQ, but don’t see it there. Will

Re: [spdx] "-only" and "-or-later" identifiers for EUPL licenses?

2024-05-02 Thread Patrice-Emmanuel SCHMITZ via lists.spdx.org
Dear Jilayne, My post was nothing personal; I can imagine how difficult it is to manage a community made up of many individuals and interests. All of us should be grateful for that and the decision to create these "-or-Later" identifiers was undoubtedly a collective one at the time, but as

Re: [spdx] "-only" and "-or-later" identifiers for EUPL licenses?

2024-05-02 Thread Karsten Klein
at 18:56 To: 'SPDX-legal' Subject: Re: [spdx] "-only" and "-or-later" identifiers for EUPL licenses? Resent-From: Resent-Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 09:56:55 -0700 I'm moving the SPDX general list to bcc, as this is really a topic for spdx-legal. In case anyone didn't see it

Re: [spdx] "-only" and "-or-later" identifiers for EUPL licenses?

2024-05-01 Thread J Lovejoy
I'm moving the SPDX general list to bcc, as this is really a topic for spdx-legal. In case anyone didn't see it and for context, my response to Christian that Patrice-Emmanuel references is on the spdx-legal thread and can be seen here: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/message/3548 Some

Re: [spdx] "-only" and "-or-later" identifiers for EUPL licenses?

2024-05-01 Thread Patrice-Emmanuel SCHMITZ via lists.spdx.org
Hello Christian, It is a frequent practice from license stewards to encourage the coverage of later versions of "their" license. At the very beginning of the EUPL, licensors are invited to specify "licensed under the EUPL", which, according to the copyleft clause 5, clearly refers to the latest

[spdx] "-only" and "-or-later" identifiers for EUPL licenses?

2024-04-25 Thread Christian Meeßen via lists . spdx . org
Hello SPDX LegalTeam, I am an RSE working at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam, Germany. I am involved in working groups in Helmholtz that deal with Research Software Engineering aspects, and am also the maintainer of the Helmholtz Research Software Directory