Indeed we have been many time through the issue concerning "rare license".
I understand very well that spdx can not cover/support every licenses.
But should be able to extend internal license knowledge base guarantying
there will be no license acronym conflict in the further versions of SPDX.
Could we implement a rule saying that SPDX acronym will never start by
"M-" which will allow us to implement specific acronym miscellaneous
licenses not supported by spdx.
Another way to do it could be to allow 2 acronyms in the standard like
SPDX-GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0 ?
I prefer the first one.
I don't remember if this point has already been pointed out and
discussed so I put legal and tech mailing list in cc.
Guillaume
Le 05/03/13 00:34, Dennis Clark a écrit :
This license text appears to be from Leptonica:
https://github.com/rajbot/autocrop/blob/master/leptonica-1.68/leptonica-license.txt
The tortured grammar of this sentence is unique and I don't think it
can be found in any of the SPDX licenses:
"*- No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the
- consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in
- writing." *
A very rare license indeed!
Hope this was helpful,
Dennis Clark
Software Auditor
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program
Office) <scott.lam...@hp.com <mailto:scott.lam...@hp.com>> wrote:
We came across this license in a recent open source review.
Fossology mis-identified this as GPL which is clearly a bug and
it's being fixed. However, my question is... would this match
any existing SPDX license?
*- Copyright (C) 2001 XXX. All rights reserved.
- This software is distributed in the hope that it will be
- useful, but with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
- No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the
- consequences of using this software, or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he or she says so in
- writing. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and
- redistribute this source code, for commercial or non-commercial
- purposes, with the following restrictions: (1) the origin of this
- source code must not be misrepresented; (2) modified versions must
- be plainly marked as such; and (3) this notice may not be removed
- or altered from any source or modified source distribution.*
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