Hi,
I noticed today that I have a number of BSD-style licenses that contain a one word difference in their warranty section as compared to the SPDX templates. The difference occurs in the phrase "ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES" where as the license list uses "EXPRESS". These words are not listed in the matching guidelines as being interchangeable. One article I read on the subject argues that they do have different meanings (http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/express-expressed/). What are your thoughts on dealing with these? Are they effectively equivalent licenses or different? Here is an example of a BSD-2-Clause style license that uses "EXPRESSED": https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx-android/blob/master/src/main/java/edu/cmu/pocketsphinx/Assets.java And here is the SPDX license list entry that uses "EXPRESS": https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.html IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
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