Hi all,
Thanks Till for weighing in here!
I think there are two general issues that come up here:
(a) A technical question: When generating SPDX data at the file level, how does
one identify the LICENSE.txt file?
Various ideas have been raised here. Some of you might be interested to know
(if
Hi all,
I have some remarks from a lawyer's perspective who is scanning source code
and/or has to deal with the results from scanning.
1.
It is helpful if the license text file is differently identified from
licensed source files. There are some reasons for that:
- This license text is not licens
Hi Richard:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:57 PM Richard Purdie wrote:
> Just to be really clear, the license ID of a given specific
> package *is* correct and definitive. What is unclear is the license of
> the license information.
>
> The challenge is that one software project can be split into mult
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 11:35 +, Zavras, Alexios wrote:
> You might want to consider using something more general, like
> LicenseRef-FSF-license-text or even LicenseRef-license-text, to use
> the same for all license files...
I think "LicenseRef-license-text" is inappropriate as the different
te
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 14:31 +0200, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:37 AM Richard Purdie
> wrote:
>
> > If we set the license of the licence text package to include GPL-
> > 3.0,
> > the legal department blocks the release since they said "no GPL-
> > 3.0".
> > If you tell
Hi Richard:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:37 AM Richard Purdie
wrote:
> If we set the license of the licence text package to include GPL-3.0,
> the legal department blocks the release since they said "no GPL-3.0".
> If you tell them its only the license text, they tell you the license
> is not GPL-
You might want to consider using something more general, like
LicenseRef-FSF-license-text or even LicenseRef-license-text, to use the same
for all license files...
-- zvr
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From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org On Behalf Of
Richard Purdie
Sent: Thursday, 18 June, 2020 13:20
On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 20:24 -0400, Steve Winslow wrote:
> Hi Richard, thanks for the detailed explanation -- I think I
> understand your use case better now.
>
> What I'd suggest would probably be that if you do want to represent
> this, one way might be to use a "LicenseRef-" identifier. This is
