On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 1:52 AM Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:42 PM Jens-Ulrik Petersen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.openhub.net/licenses/cnews. > > This is almost identical to what Fedora calls the revised version of > the Henry Spencer Regex Library License: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Henry_Spencer_Reg-Ex_Library_License > > Note this compliance-related comment: > "Be sure to include a copy of the newer license terms in the package > as %license, to comply with the "documentation" clauses." > Sure > Apparently the Fedora license tag for either version of the Henry > Spencer license has been "HSRL". SPDX uses the short identifier > "Spencer-94" for what I think is essentially identical to the revised > HSRL. > > The difference that I spotted is that this CNEWS license adds the word > "freely". I believe that would cause the license text not to match > Spencer-94 in the SPDX sense. > > That difference is far less significant than textual differences in > other licenses that Fedora has mapped to the sam License: tag. > Therefore, as an unsatisfying shorter term solution here I'd suggest > using "HSRL". > Thank you very much, Richard! Best regards, Jens
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