On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:22 PM, W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> wrote: > 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-*.
Trevor: Is this a joke or are you seriously suggesting that you want to track the license of licenses? Would there not be a risk of infinite recursion!? e.g. your GNUVerbatim license license should be what then? GNUVerbatimVerbatim? or would it instead self-reference itself in some strange loop? -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
