Re: public domain dedication variants in the wild (found in Fedora)

I’m 100% in favor of a blanket public domain identifier. Ria Farrell Schalnat (she/her) Open Source Program Manager ria.schal...@hpe.com [Text Description automatically generated with low confidence] From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org On Behalf Of Richard Fontana

New Change Proposal Filed: Expand Options for Data License in SPDX Documents #8

Happy Friday, everyone! Just filed a change proposal to request an expansion of options for the field “Data License” for SPDX documents. Please consider and add any comments/questions in the proposal! https://github.com/spdx/change-proposal/issues/8 Best regards, Ria Farrell Schalnat (she/h

Re: issues that need input

Jilayne, I wonder if rather than adding all these licenses to SPDX just because they happen to have some use in either Fedora/Debian if we could consider an extra external contact to the copyright holder on the chance they would be willing to relicense the code under something more standard (

Re: A suggestion to use Relationships for the licence variants use-case

Sebastien, LEGALLY-EQUIVALENT-TO bothers me since "the producer of the SPDX document containing such a Relationship has made the claim that they believe the two to be legally equivalent" - if I understand that these tags are being assigned by the vendor, do I trust their legal determination? M

Re: for discussion: when can people start using short ids?

Just out of curiosity - why is the release cycle for new licenses quarterly? Is there significant work in a release of new licenses (assuming that this isn't tied to other more material updates like the spec itself). Thanks, Ria Farrell Schalnat Open Source Program Manager Hewlett Packard En

Re: SPDX should take a stronger stance against vanity/promotional licenses

+1 to Richard! -Original Message- From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org On Behalf Of Richard Fontana Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 3:30 PM To: SPDX-legal Subject: SPDX should take a stronger stance against vanity/promotional licenses As I've been following the issue queue for github.com/s