Re: Spdx-legal Digest, Vol 63, Issue 23

2016-03-31 Thread Michael Herzog
We have never agreed to limit our work to any organization's particular definition of "open source". We agreed from the beginning of SPDX that our goal was to facilitate exchange of license information about software packages with a focus on open source, not a limitation to any definition of open

Re: Spdx-legal Digest, Vol 51, Issue 11

2015-03-26 Thread Michael Herzog
I strongly recommend that we keep LGPL-3.0 in the License List as a License. I understand the Exceptions consistency argument, but this is effectively a major license on its own. No one will be confused by referring to it as LGPL 3.0 and many will be confused by reformulating it as a License