So this is the difficulty. We know of an order of magnitude of different variants of BSD and MIT (many of which are unclassified by the OSI and SPDX). They're all functionally identical. Are you volunteering to audit all the Fedora packages to correct the license tags? I'm not. :)
Today, we don't burden the packager to determine which slight rewording of BSD is in their package, especially when there is no real benefit from being pedantic. ~tom On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:17 AM Fernando Nasser <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2019-03-14 6:06 a.m., Tom Callaway wrote: > > That's just BSD. > > > Thanks Tom, I do see in https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause > > *Note: This license has also been called the "Simplified BSD License" and > the "FreeBSD License". See also the 3-clause BSD License > <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause>.* > > but this causes us some problems... > > > The licenses are collected automatically and included in the package docs > and there are instance like: > > <packageName>liquid</packageName> > <version>0.1.0-1</version> > <licenses> > <license> > <name>BSD-2-Clause</name> > <url>https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause</url> > > and other similar entries with this license abbreviation. > > > The License: label has a and with the 3 licenses listed, and just BSD will > appear discrepant from what is included by the automatically generated > licenses file. > > > As https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause got its own SPDX > identifier "BSD-2-Clause" could we not add it too? > > > Cheers, > > Fernando > > > > > > ~tom > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 5:59 AM Fernando Nasser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> Would it be possible to add to >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses >> >> and corresponding databases the license: >> >> >> BSD-2-Clause https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> P.S.: We currently have only BSD-2-Clause-Patent >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD-2-Clause-Patent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> legal mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >> > >
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