Thanks McCoy! We’ll get this on the SPDX License List for the next release. I trust OSI will update their page with the short identifier and full name accordingly as well.
Cheers, Jilayne SPDX Legal Team co-lead opensou...@jilayne.com > On Jun 19, 2017, at 11:12 AM, Smith, McCoy <mccoy.sm...@intel.com> wrote: > > All: > > After some back and forth with Jilayne, we believe the best naming approach > (for SPDX purposes) from the “BSD+Patent > <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent>” license recently added to > the OSI list to be: > > Full name: BSD-2-Clause plus Patent License > > SPDX Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent > > [Note there is something that Facebook is using that they have recently > started calling “ <>BSD+Patents > <https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556>” but this isn’t on the OSI > list nor is it a fully intact license, but a BSD 3-clause with a separate > additional patent grant found elsewhere; I’m not sure how SPDX might (or has) > handled that although I think you treat additional grants appended to > existing OSI licenses differently]. > > This approach is most consistent with naming conventions used by SPDX and > OSI, and keeping in mind concerns about using special characters (“+”) in > certain contexts in which mechanical/computerized review is used. > > Let me know if you have any questions on this. > > McCoy Smith > Intel Corporation > Law & Policy Group > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-legal mailing list > Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org <mailto:Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal > <https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal>
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