SPDX Cloud Server now supports SPDX 1.2 file creation

2013-11-06 Thread Ahmed, Sameer
Hi All, Wind River just released SPDX 1.2 support for its free SPDX file creation cloud server. Here is what's new: * Supports newly released SPDX 1.2 format. * Improved Analysis Quality - Added several new license detector agents to improve expert system analysis engine. *

SPDX Legal Team meeting tomorrow (thursday)

2013-11-06 Thread Jilayne Lovejoy
Hi All! Thanks to Paul Madick for running the last legal team meeting while I was gone. Meeting minutes have been posted here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2013-10-24 For tomorrow's call, it will follow a similar pattern in terms of updates on the following topics: 1) License

Re: GNU [?] Affero General Public License v1.0

2013-11-06 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Jilayne Lovejoy wrote at 14:39 (EST) on Tuesday: > If I understand correctly then, there really isn't a need for a short > identifier for AGPLv2 because it doesn't exist as a individual license > in the sense that it simply allows something under AGPLv1 to be > licensed under AGPLv3 ... > (which, a

Re: SPDX - license inconsistency

2013-11-06 Thread Jilayne Lovejoy
Hi Bob, Yes, this is an issue! In looking more closely at the Ruby license, we also realized that the text has varied over the years as well. (see some of discussion captured here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2013-09-12 ) The solution for v1.19 (released last month) of the

Re: SPDX license clarification - artistic

2013-11-06 Thread Jilayne Lovejoy
Hi Bob, In short, the answer is that there are actually three different variations of Artistic 1.0, as follows: - the one on OSI site with clause 8 - the one on OSI site without clause 8 - the one on the Perl site After conferring with the OSI on how to deal with this for purposes of the SPDX L

Re: Fedora license list review

2013-11-06 Thread Jilayne Lovejoy
I added some notes as well, but I think I colored outside the green lines… :) I also added a column regarding the short identifiers to indicate when they are different from Fedora's. This is a key part of this task; that is, to track where they are different (which is inevitable) so that some

Re: Fedora license list review

2013-11-06 Thread Dennis Clark
Hi Legal Group, I added a few comments on the latest green-highlighted group on the Fedora list. These are pretty obscure! Looking forward to other comments. Regards, Dennis Clark nexB, Inc. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, wrote: > Thank you to everyone who participated in the review of t