Re: CC NC/ND licenses and "general attributes of an 'open source' license"?

2018-09-30 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
Mike: On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:45 PM Mike Linksvayer wrote: > I did not know license list candidates must have the general attributes of an > "open source" license, but I'm glad to learn of the requirement. > I wonder how the CC NC and ND licenses made it through (I searched the list >

Re: CC NC/ND licenses and "general attributes of an 'open source' license"?

2018-09-29 Thread Kyle Mitchell
This interests me also. It's my impression, from both the license-list explanation and the actual list, that SPDX casts a broader net than either OSI or FSF. Substantial compliance is sufficient. I also note: The SPDX Legal Team endeavors to explain its reasoning, analysis, and conclusions

CC NC/ND licenses and "general attributes of an 'open source' license"?

2018-09-29 Thread Mike Linksvayer
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/689#issuecomment-423262092 (about a non-open-source BSD variant): discussed on Sept 20 call: as per the license inclusion guidelines at > https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/license-list-overview : "...any > license that is a candidate for inclusion