A non-standard "permissive" license

2013-03-04 Thread Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office)
We came across this license in a recent open source review.   Fossology 
mis-identified  this as GPL which is clearly a bug and it's being fixed.   
However, my question is...   would this match any existing SPDX license?

- Copyright (C) 2001 XXX. All rights reserved.
- This software is distributed in the hope that it will be
- useful, but with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
- No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the
- consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in
- writing. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and
- redistribute this source code, for commercial or non-commercial
- purposes, with the following restrictions: (1) the origin of this
- source code must not be misrepresented; (2) modified versions must
- be plainly marked as such; and (3) this notice may not be removed
- or altered from any source or modified source distribution.


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Re: A non-standard "permissive" license

2013-03-04 Thread Dennis Clark
This license text appears to be from Leptonica:

https://github.com/rajbot/autocrop/blob/master/leptonica-1.68/leptonica-license.txt

The tortured grammar of this sentence is unique and I don't think it can be
found in any of the SPDX licenses:

"*- No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the
- consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in
- writing." *

A very rare license indeed!

Hope this was helpful,
Dennis Clark
Software Auditor
www.nexb.com
dmcl...@nexb.com
510-517-9659

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office) <
scott.lam...@hp.com> wrote:

>  We came across this license in a recent open source review.   Fossology
> mis-identified  this as GPL which is clearly a bug and it's being fixed.
> However, my question is...   would this match any existing SPDX license?**
> **
>
> ** **
>
> *- Copyright (C) 2001 XXX. All rights reserved.
> - This software is distributed in the hope that it will be
> - useful, but with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
> - No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the
> - consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any
> - particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in
> - writing. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and
> - redistribute this source code, for commercial or non-commercial
> - purposes, with the following restrictions: (1) the origin of this
> - source code must not be misrepresented; (2) modified versions must
> - be plainly marked as such; and (3) this notice may not be removed
> - or altered from any source or modified source distribution.*
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
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