Discussion spawned by my v1 Verbatim proposal [1] seems to have died down, so here's a v2. Changes since v1:
* Renamed from ‘Verbatim’ to ‘GNUVerbatim’ to allow for other verbatim names in the future (e.g. if someone wants to register [2] as GNUVerbatimWeb [3] or wants to register non-GNU verbatim license). * Suggested <alt> tags to match the wording used by the GNU CC General Public License [4,5] or non-license documents. # Motivation The GPL family of licenses (e.g. [6]) and some other documents (e.g. [7]) are licensed under a verbatim license (canonical text attached). The GNU CC General Public License (1988) was also released under very similar language [4]. I propose we add this license with markup like: …copies of this <alt name="doc" match="license|document|license document">license document</alt>, but … so we can express all of those closely related licenses with the GNUVerbatim short ID without resorting to custom LicenseRef-*. # Scope I believe [2] is sufficiently different, e.g. mentioning royalties and medium. If/when it gets an SPDX ID, I think that ID should be distinct from the one I'm proposing here. In my v1 proposal [1], I'd also floated adding a field to our license XML to express the license which applies to the license itself, as concluded by the SPDX legal team. That opened up significant subsequent discussion, which was interesting, but fairly tangential to this proposal. I'd like to keep the v2 discussion focused on whether we want a GNUVerbatim entry in the SPDX license list, and we can circle back around and decide whether we want to use that identifier ourselves in follow-up work. # Registration metadata Proposed full name: GNU Verbatim License Proposed short identifier: GNUVerbatim OSI approved: no (and it clearly does not support the OSI's derived works condition [8]). Cheers, Trevor [1]: https://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2017-September/002156.html Subject: New license proposal: Verbatim Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 12:21:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20170907192143.gw4...@valgrind.tremily.us> [2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#VerbatimCopying [3]: https://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2017-September/002189.html Subject: Re: New license proposal: Verbatim Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:42:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20170912184231.gk30...@valgrind.tremily.us> [4]: https://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2017-September/002158.html Subject: Re: New license proposal: Verbatim Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:41:23 -0400 Message-ID: <20170907204122.GA31923@clifford> [5]: https://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2017-September/002160.html Subject: Re: New license proposal: Verbatim Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 15:43:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20170907224359.gz4...@valgrind.tremily.us> [6]: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/f3dc56f2424e8e93732f655637e0542c5557588c/src/GPL-2.0.xml#L29-L30 [7]: https://developercertificate.org/ [8]: https://opensource.org/osd#derived-works -- 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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