Errata: W3C and WHATWG operate in *a somewhat similar manner* On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 3:51 AM Josh Habdas <jhab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Given there are bodies such as OSI and SPDX present, with presence on the > GitHub community, would the need for such a tool be mitigated if something > like the GPL—itself being copy written and arguably difficult to use > <https://github.com/comfusion/hyperdrive/issues/41>—be mitigated if each > license were given an address in the Blockchain pointing back to the > authentic and original license text as to represent the canonical source of > a license used. > > The W3C and WHATWG operate in this manner and I perceive this to be > strategic way to help simplify the burden of companies attempting to > understand what's actually in their products, help prevent accidental > long-term license proliferation and simplify application of licenses to > FOSS project source code in the wild. > > I'd open to finding time to discuss on this in more detail as I feel it > ties in with the crypto licenses I'm attempting to push forward if there is > any interest. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best ones. > > Regards, > Josh > > On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 3:05 AM W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:53:05PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: >> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 11:44:45AM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: >> > > The only difference that turned up in the license text is: >> > > >> > > Copyright [-©-]{+(C)+} 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> > > >> > > Our guideline for equating copyright symbols includes (c) but not (C) >> > > [2]. Maybe that's what's going on? >> > >> > Is that intentional? >> >> Ah, there is also guideline 4 saying that case is not significant. >> Presumably that also applies to these equivalent replacements. >> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Spdx-legal mailing list >> Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org >> https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal >> >
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