Eric Weddington [mailto:eric_wedding...@trimble.com]:
> Where SPDX is at now, is that it says one thing, but does another.
> Yes, the website says that the SPDX License List is a list of "commonly found 
> open source licenses".  But if we're going to talk about restriction use then 
> it's too late. The list already has these:
> CC-BY-NC-1.0 ...

Excellent point, and these are clearly *not* open source software licenses as 
well.

> The value, to me, that SPDX has is that it lists common licenses, that also 
> happen to include all the Open Source licenses too. They list a superset.
> The SPDX is not the OSI, or the FSF, and should never aim to be. Change the 
> website language to read "commonly found licenses, including open source".

Agreed.

--- David A. Wheeler

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