Re: New OSI approved license

2017-05-31 Thread J Lovejoy
re-sending, as SPDX-legal failed to get in to line on last try :) > On May 31, 2017, at 9:57 PM, J Lovejoy wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > Thanks - I’d actually been meaning to email you and McCoy (as the author) on > this one. > > Following our existing pattern for variations on BSD (listed belo

licenses in other languages (not English)

2017-05-31 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi All, As related to the topic of how to treat non-English licenses and translations, especially in regard to matching and short identifiers: I have now collected some of the proposals and comments from the General mailing list (thanks Karsten!), some general info, a link to the slides presen

Re: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-05-31 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi David (P), David W is right - this is the same license as BSD-3-Clause. The only difference is in the “replaceable” text (i.e., the names) as per the license matching guidelines and which you can see visually in the red text on the license webpage here: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

New OSI approved license

2017-05-31 Thread Richard Fontana
Hi spdx-legal, The OSI recently approved a license called "BSD+Patent" which I would like to propose as an addition to the SPDX license list. https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent IIUC "+" can't be used in an SPDX short license identifier - in that case I'd recommend "BSDplusPatent" unle

Re: Duplicate license

2017-05-31 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi Julien, Ah, well, good spot; you are right, these are the same licenses. I trudged back in the archives and looks like Nunit was added in version 1.17 and zlib-acknowledgment is tagged (in the spreadsheet tracking) as added in version 2.4, but I don’t think that is correct as I seem to recal