>> Yes. Net-SNMP. text is the stack of licenses. Which stack of licenses? Would that be from version 5.4.4, 5.6.2.1 or 5.7.3? Each version has a slightly different stack of licenses (see attached COPYING files). Or would we be adding multiple license identifiers to the list for the different versions?
net-snmp-5.4.4 (seven notices) net-snmp-5.6.2.1 (nine notices) net-snmp-5.7.3 (ten notices) Would we also need to look back at other older versions of net-snmp to make sure we accurately represent all the different license stacks? What about further versions? To make a license notice file a license fundamentally undermines the definition of what is a license with respect to the SPDX license list. A core principle is that the text of a license does not change very often (but when it does it is given a new version number). On the other hand license notices for a software deliverable (e.g., a binary or set of binaries) do change often with newer versions. Licenses and license notice files are two fundamentally different things. It is unfortunate that the Net-SNMP project has confused the two with the following link (for which the content changes with almost every release): http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/about/license.html Note that they do include the version number in the upper right hand corner. If we go down the proposed path it makes it easier to add other notice files in place of a license which would undermine the value of the license list. For now I would recommend representing the Net-SNMP package license using a license-ref. For example: LicenseRef-net-snmp-5.4.4 LicenseRef-net-snmp-5.6.2.1 LicenseRef-net-snmp-5.7.3 The proposed license expression enhancements for packages (I am hoping to discuss in the near future) would also allow using a license expression as a reasonable alternative (e.g, MIT-CMU; BSD-3-Clause). - Mark From: J Lovejoy [mailto:opensou...@jilayne.com] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2017 2:38 PM To: Gisi, Mark Cc: Dennis Clark; SPDX-legal Subject: Re: legal call today! Hi Mark, Yes. Net-SNMP. text is the stack of licenses. will post meeting minutes with a bit of a summary shortly :) Jilayne SPDX Legal Team co-lead opensou...@jilayne.com<mailto:opensou...@jilayne.com> On Jan 6, 2017, at 3:35 PM, Gisi, Mark <mark.g...@windriver.com<mailto:mark.g...@windriver.com>> wrote: Hi Dennis, Jilayne, I am a little confused. Was it decided to add a Net-SNMP License to the list? If so, what would be the identifier and what is the text? Thanks, - Mark From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org<mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org> [mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of J Lovejoy Sent: Friday, January 06, 2017 12:25 PM To: Dennis Clark Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: legal call today! Thanks Dennis. I tweaked this a bit to mirror what we had for Python, since it’s a similar situation. J. On Jan 5, 2017, at 11:59 AM, Dennis Clark <dmcl...@nexb.com<mailto:dmcl...@nexb.com>> wrote: Hi Jilayne, Proposed text for Notes on the Net-SNMP License: The Net-SNMP License is a widely used stack of open source licenses that is universally referenced by that name, and can be considered a single license for practical purposes. 10:42 am Regards, Dennis Clark On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:09 AM, J Lovejoy <opensou...@jilayne.com<mailto:opensou...@jilayne.com>> wrote: Happy New Year everyone! Don’t forget, we have our first legal call of 2017 today at 11am Mtn Time (10am PT, 1pm ET) Use your computer: http://uberconference.com/SPDXTeam OR call this number: (United States): +1-857-216-2871<tel:(857)%20216-2871> User PIN: 38633 As for agenda: I’m working on the v2.6 release today, so any outstanding issues we will use a bit of time to close that out so we can get the release live in the next few days. There has also been some discussions on the mailing list, so anything that needs addressing there will also be priority. Lastly, we’ll look at goals for 2017. Thanks, Jilayne & Paul _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org<mailto:Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
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