Re: SPDX License List 3.0 is now live!

2017-12-29 Thread W. Trevor King
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 03:26:47PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > Aww man, you've got to be kidding? You got rid of the "+" signifier > and now we have to write out words?! > > I really don't like this change. It makes things more verbose for no > benefit. This issue has seen a a lot of discussion

Re: License list release 2.7 or 3.0? (was: update on license list release)

2017-12-29 Thread Brad Edmondson
I don't recall any specifics, just that in Nov/early Dec the tech team told us on a call that it was contemplating some potentially backward-compat-breaking changes. Not sure if those were ultimately agreed upon or what they were, but iirc the legal team took it as received wisdom and bumped to

Re: License list release 2.7 or 3.0? (was: update on license list release)

2017-12-29 Thread W. Trevor King
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 02:27:19PM -0500, Brad Edmondson wrote: > We discussed on the Dec. 7 call and landed on 3.0 -- I think partly > because the spec was leaning toward 3.0 as well… Are we planning on breaking backwards compat with the spec? That would be fun for me when I'm wearing my

Re: License list release 2.7 or 3.0? (was: update on license list release)

2017-12-29 Thread Brad Edmondson
We discussed on the Dec. 7 call and landed on 3.0 -- I think partly because the spec was leaning toward 3.0 as well and we wanted to track somewhat closely. https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2017-12-07 Best, Brad -- Brad Edmondson, *Esq.* 512-673-8782 | brad.edmond...@gmail.com On

SPDX License List 3.0 is now live!

2017-12-29 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi all, Thanks to a lot of hard work by various members of the SPDX legal team, we have now (finally!) gone live with version 3.0 of the SPDX License List - including use of the new XML format for the master files and changes to the GNU license identifiers due to collaboration with the FSF. As

Re: Preview site updated

2017-12-29 Thread Matija Šuklje
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 23:11:57 CET g...@sourceauditor.com wrote: > I just updated the website https://spdx.org/licenses/preview/ with the > current release candidate for the 3.0 SPDX license list. Looks very much the same as the current live one on: . The