Richard, Trevor,
Thanks very much for the heads-up about the license text change and
corresponding details. Yes, Unversioned license changes are, ahem,
exciting.
Regards,
Dennis Clark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:38 PM, W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:36:01PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > Note that the EPL-2.0 text, at the canonical eclipse.org URL, and
> > specifically Exhibit A, has been changed since this was first
> > discussed on spdx-legal…
>
> Unversioned license changes… exciting :p. I also see that the initial
> post to spdx-legal@ [1] didn't include the license text as an
> attachment (part of the official submission policy [2]), which makes
> it hard to ensure that everyone is talking about the same thing.
> Comparing the current content of [3] with [4], the differences are:
>
> $ diff -u EPL-2.0-GitHub EPL-2.0-canonical
> --- EPL-2.0-GitHub 2017-08-21 19:58:57.000000000 -0700
> +++ EPL-2.0-canonical 2017-09-06 12:03:33.000000000 -0700
> @@ -261,10 +261,10 @@
>
> Exhibit A - Form of Secondary Licenses Notice
>
> -"This Source Code is also Distributed under one
> -or more Secondary Licenses, as those terms are defined by
> -the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0: {name license(s),version(s),
> -and exceptions or additional permissions here}."
> +"This Source Code may also be made available under the following
> +Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth
> +in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: {name license(s),
> +version(s), and exceptions or additional permissions here}."
>
> Simply including a copy of this Agreement, including this Exhibit A
> is not sufficient to license the Source Code under Secondary Licenses.
>
> and a lack of a trailing newline in [3].
>
> Cheers,
> Trevor
>
> [1]: https://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2017-August/002134.html
> Subject: New License/Exception Request: EPL-2.0
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:52:44 -0400
> Message-ID: <CALXWXwdyRwF2QBKLmPcfuFaQoqBM-bL=
> qv5uzedam-fk9_-...@mail.gmail.com>
> [2]: https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license
> Submission Requirements:
> …
> 4. Create and attach a text file with the license or exception
> text from the url provided in #3. Please proofread the text
> file to ensure that:
>
> a. Information has not been lost or modified.
> b. Formatting is clean and consistent with the license or
> exception URL.
> [3]: https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-2.0/EPL-2.0.txt
> [4]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jslicense/EPL-2.0/
> 4ca05c9619df980e06ed8ebcc5ae9f1b5f7af011/EPL-2.0
>
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