On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 02:59:30PM -0400, Wheeler, David A wrote: > Richard Fontana: > > The way I read the matching guidelines this license does not > > actually match to BSD-3-Clause, even though it obviously should. > > I think the problem is that I am reading the matching guidelines > > more literally than they may be intended to be read, but given > > that this is supposed to be a formal specification I think the > > matching guidelines ought to be made more precise. For example, if > > the word "the" is optional in certain contexts for purposes of > > matching, that ought to be accounted for in the formulation of the > > matching guidelines. > > I think those are bugs in the matching guidelines, not a failure to > match ☺. If there are bugs, I think they should be fixed!
Are you suggesting a blanket: All articles (“a”, “an”, “the”, …) are optional for matching purposes. in [1]? Or are you suggesting BSD-3-Clause be updated to use: 3. Neither <<var;name=organizationArticleClause3;original=the ;match=.+>>name of Cheers, Trevor [1]: https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/matching-guidelines -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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