Re: GPL Cooperation Commitment variations

2018-12-10 Thread Alexios Zavras
Hi Richard, Let me try to answer, since I was the one who did the "unifying" markup. Our goal is obviously to match the three GPLCC variants and (ideally) not match anything else. Unfortunately, the latter part is not 100% achievable, but I feel the stuff we allow on top of the original variants

Linux kernel enforcement statement discussion

2018-12-10 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi all, I was hoping that others long-standing members of the SPDX legal community would jump in on this thread, but a few days have gone by now and no further discussion, so let me summarize some pertinent background, where I think we are, and any remaining questions or issues that need to be

Re: GPL Cooperation Commitment variations

2018-12-10 Thread Grant Likely
Hi folks, I'm a little late to this discussion, but I think I should weigh in. To me this discussion is very odd, at least from the context of the Kernel Enforcement Statement. I don't think it makes any sense to encode the KES in an SPDX tag, and I am leaning in the same direction on the GPLCC

Re: Linux kernel enforcement statement discussion

2018-12-10 Thread Dennis Clark
I think that a KES Exception on the SPDX list should consist only of the three indented paragraphs in the text at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst basically lines 18-36. I also think that anyone shold be

Re: Linux kernel enforcement statement discussion

2018-12-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 15:58 -0700, J Lovejoy wrote: [...] > C) The issue comes down to how the short identifier would be > effectively used due to the KES's slightly different implementation > as described above in 1-6. [...] > C-iii) There is also the possibility that people might incorrectly > u

About First Time Contribution

2018-12-10 Thread jarupula baba
Hi, myself Baba Nayak. I am little confused where to start for contribution. Can anyone guide me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2468): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/message/2468 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/2

Re: Linux kernel enforcement statement discussion

2018-12-10 Thread Michael Dolan
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 7:47 PM James Bottomley < james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > > So I think, realistically, the kernel wouldn't ever use this. Now that > means don't do it, but I think it's legitimate to wonder how many other > projects would have similar problems. > Which lea