Hello, I'm trying to use SPDX identifiers for xmag-1.0.7 package <https://www.x.org/archive//individual/app/xmag-1.0.7.tar.xz> and I run into difficulties with identifying MIT-family licenses.
Specifically, two of them:
CutPaste.c file reads:
Copyright 1989, 1998 The Open Group
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and
its
documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
that
the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation.
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OPEN GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of The Open Group shall
not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or
other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
from The Open Group.
That's clearly MIT-open-group <https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-open-group.html>
license. But Fedora's license list in
/usr/share/fedora-license-data/licenses/fedora-licenses.json distributed
within fedora-license-data-1.0-1.fc37 does not recognize this identifier.
Could legal team look at this license, add the identifier to the Fedora
database, and decide whether it is acceptable for Fedora packages?
Then CutPaste.h file reads:
Copyright (C) 1999 The XFree86 Project, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the
rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or
sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software
is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
SHALL THE
XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER
IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project
shall
not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or
other
dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
XFree86 Project.
It looks like MIT <https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html> license except the file
has an additional "Except as contained..." paragraph. Is it "MIT" license? Or
is it a different one from a <https://spdx.org/licenses/> list? Or is it
a completely new variant?
Please note that both these licenses are not new to xmag package. They were
there probably from the very first days of Fedora. So far I postponed
converting xmag Fedora package to SPDX syntax. That will mask these issues,
but I'd like to solve them sooner than later to be ready when SPDX syntax
becomes mandatory.
-- Petr
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