Since Philippe and Trevor are OK or reluctantly OK with the OR-MAYBE proposal and it looks like it solves the issues David is raising, why don't we proceed with this as a proposal for 2.1.
Since this also impact the technical aspects of the spec, we can discuss this on the tech call tomorrow (Tuesday). I'll send out a separate email later this morning to the tech mailing list. If anyone else on the legal mailing list has opinions, speak (or write) now ... There are some details on the proposal we need to close on: - Do we agree with the term "OR-MAYBE", or should we go with a single character like "?"? - Should we disallow "OR-MAYBE" in declared license fields? - What is the exact definition of the "OR-MAYBE" we would include in the spec? - What version of the spec should we target? Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Ombredanne [mailto:pombreda...@nexb.com] > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 3:26 AM > To: Wheeler, David A <dwhee...@ida.org> > Cc: g...@sourceauditor.com; W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us>; SPDX-legal > <spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> > Subject: Re: Keep partial conclusions out of license expressions (was: update > on > only/or later etc.) > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Wheeler, David A <dwhee...@ida.org> > wrote: > > g...@sourceauditor.com [mailto:g...@sourceauditor.com] > >> David - I'm curious if the "OR-MAYBE" proposal solves the issue you > >> are raising as well. > > > > Yes, it does. > > If most everyone were to agree to add this, I am reluctantly OK. > Technically the implementation is easy-peasy so that's not the issue. > > I still think these rare cases and exceptions are not exceptional enough to > bend, > break or add new rules to the expression syntax and turn it in a > franken-syntax. > > -- > Cordially > Philippe Ombredanne > > +1 650 799 0949 | pombreda...@nexb.com > DejaCode - What's in your code?! - http://www.dejacode.com AboutCode - > Open source for open source - https://www.aboutcode.org nexB Inc. - > http://www.nexb.com _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
