HI Oliver, They are both right and the same:
As to the copyright notice, as per the SPDX License List Matching Guidelines, guidelines #10 - copyright notices are to be ignored for matching purposes, see: https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/matching-guidelines <https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/matching-guidelines> As to the “author” or “ISC” difference in the disclaimer - this should be denoted with markup indicating that it is a match regardless of whether a specific name (e.g., ISC) or generic reference (e.g., author), is used there in the same way we have done in the BSD licenses and as per matching guideline #2 Mike L. also brought this up re: the copyright notice, so Ive noted this to be done for the next release. I’ll add a to-do to also add markup in the disclaimer. https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/404 <https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/404> thanks, Jilayne SPDX Legal Team co-lead opensou...@jilayne.com > On Jul 28, 2017, at 7:12 AM, Fendt, Oliver <oliver.fe...@siemens.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a trivial question in regard to the ISC License you are listing at > https://spdx.org/licenses/ISC <https://spdx.org/licenses/ISC> > The text you are providing is: > > ISC License: > Copyright (c) 2004-2010 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") > Copyright (c) 1995-2003 by Internet Software Consortium > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any > purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above > copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD > TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND > FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, > OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF > USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER > TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE > OF THIS SOFTWARE. > > > My question is: > 1. are the copyright entries part of the license text? > I would say no, and if you look at the ISC License text which is listed at > the web site of OSI (https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC > <https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC>) you will get the following text: > Copyright <YEAR> <OWNER> > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any > purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above > copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH > REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY > AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, > INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM > LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR > OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR > PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. > > > Furthermore there is another inconsistency between your ISC License and the > OSI ISC License. Please take a look at both disclaimers: > The text of your ISC License speaks about THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" > AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL … so ISC ist here explicitly mentioned > The text of the OSI ISC License speaks about THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" > AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS …so here is the Author mentioned > > Can you please check this and provide me information what is correct > > Thank you very much > > Ciao > Oliver > _______________________________________________ > 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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