RE: The unlicense

2013-07-31 Thread Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office)
+1 From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org [mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Tom Incorvia Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:58 PM To: Jilayne Lovejoy; Camille Moulin Cc: SPDX Legal (spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org) Subject: RE: The unlicense I agree, let's add it. I was the orig

RE: The unlicense

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Incorvia
I agree, let's add it. I was the original requestor. There were several follow-on discussions after the original submission: - Questioning this as an actual license - Asking for clarification of the criteria for inclusion of a license - Noting regional differences i

Re: The unlicense

2013-07-31 Thread Philip Odence
The name is unfortunate. The world will have to deal with the distinction between Unlicensed software and and unlicensed software. From: , Lamons Scott mailto:scott.lam...@hp.com>> Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:16 PM To: Jilayne Lovejoy mailto:jilayne.love...@openlogic.com>>, Camille Moulin

RE: The unlicense

2013-07-31 Thread Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office)
Thanks Jilayne! It looked like there were some other interesting discussions on the list below (e.g. something about OSI not considering this license/notice) but I didn't have time to dig into all the details. -Scott From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org [mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.s

Re: The unlicense

2013-07-31 Thread Jilayne Lovejoy
Yes, it is on our "on hold" status for some reason, as there was some debate about adding it. I also agree it should be on the list. Funny, you sent this link, Scott, as I had just come across it multiple times in an audit we were doing (projects on GitHub mostly)! In any case, I will put this

Re: The unlicense

2013-07-31 Thread Camille Moulin
Hi, Le 31/07/2013 16:41, Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office) a écrit : Has there been any thought or discussion on supporting this license in SPDX? Yes http://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2012-December/000723.html According to this post, it seems to be getting some traction

The unlicense

2013-07-31 Thread Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office)
Has there been any thought or discussion on supporting this license in SPDX? According to this post, it seems to be getting some traction on github. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.law.unlicense ___ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org http