Sébastien, I wrote the npm code that gave the warning you received. I contributed that code unofficially, as a member of the npm community. I don't speak for SPDX or npm here. Just for myself.
From a community point of view, it was very important to choose a metadata standard that recognized "dissident" forms like WTFPL and Unlicense. SPDX has taken the time---much of it volunteer time--- to make that possible. Some of the SPDX-listed options are Open Source licenses, and some are not. But all the people who use them are valued members of our community. Public domain dedication and "anti-licenses" are a real, if still small, movement. It was also important not to exclude or pester members of the community who want to use personal license terms to express themselves. npm CLI gives warnings because, most of the time, a nonstandard `license` property comes from forgetting to add one altogether or using an ambiguous or misspelled identifier, like `BSD` or `Apache 2`. If the standard- error output really bothers you, you can change the `license` property to `SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.md` or similar. See https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#license. You could also change to `WTFPL` and include both English and French texts in your package. The issue of language and translations is very important, and unsolved. I speak English natively, Russian badly, and Spanish almost not at all anymore. Personally, if I spoke Spanish or Russian natively, and English as a second language, the hard-to-read English of most open- source licenses would bring WTFPL closer to my heart. Using an English- language WTFPL with a "translation" would bother me. Nobody likes to feel unappreciated. I fear taking time from everyone on the list to "standardize" translations of "fuck" in multiple languages, even "official" translations, would leave the members of the working group feeling very little appreciated. On the legal side of open source, few groups deserve it less than SPDX. It might be funny if they did. But they don't. I know how hard it can be to work in someone else's native language. Thank you for working in mine! Best, K -- Kyle Mitchell, attorney // Oakland // (510) 712 - 0933 _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
