Hi all, Not having heard a response re: versioning, we discussed on the SPDX legal call today and agreed <https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/616#issuecomment-393596266> to version by date. This will be included in the 3.2 release of the SPDX License List, slated for the end of June.
Best, Brad -- Brad Edmondson, *Esq.* 512-673-8782 | brad.edmond...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Brad Edmondson <brad.edmond...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Apologies for the multiple messages, but I meant to ask whether you > personally were the author of the exception text, or whether you knew who > the author was or how to get in touch with them. > > The purpose of this contact would be to ask whether the author of the > exception text could institute a version number for the text, such that if > they were to ever change the text itself, they would explicitly indicate > that by bumping the version number. This would be upstream (from our > perspective) and allow us to call the current text something like "AGPL-3.0 > font exception PS-PDF *v1.0.*" However, we can't really call it "1.0" > without verifying with the author that they (the author) intend it to be > "1.0" (or 0.95 or 2.2 or whatever) and that they will indicate any changes > with a bump to 1.1 or a 2.0 (which could subsequently be added to the SPDX > License List exceptions, and whose name could be distinguished by version > number). Absent an author's version number, we will probably fall back on > referencing the earliest known date the exception text was used, which in > this case would result in a name something along the lines of "AGPL-3.0 > font exception PS-PDF 20170817" (yyyymmdd from here > <https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/commit/9927f3ca634ebb2e02caecee9b4414218dc994e7#diff-9879d6db96fd29134fc802214163b95a> > ). > > Thank you and please let us know within the next week if you can provide > any further information that will help clarify versioning. > > Best, > Brad Edmondson > > -- > Brad Edmondson, *Esq.* > 512-673-8782 | brad.edmond...@gmail.com > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Brad Edmondson <brad.edmond...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Stefan, >> >> Thank you for this license request. It has been approved here >> <https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/616> and will be added >> to the next release of the SPDX License List. >> >> Best, >> Brad >> >> -- >> Brad Edmondson, *Esq.* >> 512-673-8782 | brad.edmond...@gmail.com >> >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Stefan Brüns < >> stefan.bru...@rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> the URW Base 35 fonts are provided under the AGPL-3.0-only license with >>> an >>> embedding exception: >>> >>> https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/blob/master/LICENSE >>> --- >>> The font and related files in this directory are distributed under the >>> GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (see the file COPYING), with >>> the following exemption: >>> >>> As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font >>> programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that >>> contains text to be displayed or printed using this font, regardless >>> of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. >>> --- >>> >>> It is similar to the Font-exception-2.0, although the latter >>> specifically >>> refers to the GPL, not AGPL. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Stefan >>> >>> -- >>> Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen >>> home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Spdx-legal mailing list >>> Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org >>> https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal >>> >>> >> >
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