license - that always confuses me!
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From: Philippe Ombredanne [mailto:pombreda...@nexb.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:03 AM
To: Robinson, Norman
Cc: spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org
Subject: Re: Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification for Public
Domain, Gove
From: Philippe Ombredanne [mailto:pombreda...@nexb.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 10:58 AM
To: Robinson, Norman
Cc: spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org
Subject: Re: Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification for Public
Domain, Government Works? Possible New License/Exception Request
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[mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Ombredanne
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 6:06 PM
To: spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org
Subject: Re: Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification for Public
Domain, Government Works? Possible New License/Excep
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Wheeler, David A wrote:
> Gisi, Mark:
>> The absence of Public Domain from the license list was not an oversight. A
>> fair amount of discussion took place to decide how to handle a public domain
>> designation. The current practice is to create a LicenseRef (a use
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Robinson, Norman wrote:
[...]
> While it could be argued UPL or public domain or CC0 1.0
> (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (SPDX CC0-1.0) does that, I
> believe citing the reasoning it is public domain, because it is a US
> Government work, will be mo
Gisi, Mark:
> The absence of Public Domain from the license list was not an oversight. A
> fair amount of discussion took place to decide how to handle a public domain
> designation. The current practice is to create a LicenseRef (a user defined
> license reference that is local to an SPDX file)
Hi Norman,
>> In review of SPDX specification (spdx.org/), I'm not seeing a clear
>> annotation for U.S. Public
>> Domain. Could you please clarify if such a license currently exists and I
>> have failed
>> to understand or find it?
The absence of Public Domain from the license list was not an
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Robinson, Norman wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> In review of SPDX specification (spdx.org/), I’m not seeing a clear
> annotation for U.S. Public Domain. Could you please clarify if such a
> license currently exists and I have failed to understand or find it? Any
> links o
