Re: Unlicense / Unlicensed

2018-03-03 Thread Kyle Mitchell
npm adopted license expressions, which did not set magic values for "no license" or "not a license on the list". Which magic values to superimpose atop license expressions was a bikeshed. We landed on `UNLICENSED` and `UNLICENCED` for "no license", `/^SEE LICEN[SC]E IN (.+)$/` for "some other

Re: Unlicense / Unlicensed

2018-03-02 Thread J Lovejoy
HI Guido, This scenario is already covered via the SPDX specification - https://spdx.org/sites/cpstandard/files/pages/files/spdxversion2.1.pdf See sections 3.15 for the Package Declared License and 3.13 for the package

Unlicense / Unlicensed

2018-03-02 Thread Guido Smeets
The only way (to my knowledge) to indicate that a piece of software is not licensed is to use the term "UNLICENSED" in the license. This is problematic because the unlicense exists, which does exactly the opposite. Perhaps it's an idea to add "ALLRIGHTSRESERVED" as an alias to "UNLICENSED"?