I suggest that we use an explicit identifier like "USGovPublicDomain" to name the designation "This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. Foreign rights may apply."
-- zvr -----Original Message----- From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org [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/Exception Request On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Wheeler, David A <dwhee...@ida.org> 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 user defined license reference that is local to an SPDX >> file). > > I think that public domain designations should be handled *exactly* > the same way by SPDX as all other common licenses - just create SPDX > license identifiers for common ones. +1 -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal Intel Deutschland GmbH Registered Address: Am Campeon 10-12, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 8853-0, www.intel.de Managing Directors: Christin Eisenschmid, Christian Lamprechter Chairperson of the Supervisory Board: Nicole Lau Registered Office: Munich Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 186928 _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
