On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@ebb.org> wrote: > Michael Dolan wrote: >> +1, I would also add that these are external and unilateral declarations >> of additional permissions. > > I agree that declarations of additional permissions made outside of a > codebase are a different issue for SPDX, in large part because SPDX's most > common use case is source code scanners that only look at codebases.
Bradley, FWIW, as a tool smith, I have no technical issue with combining the license and copyright holder scans and therefore returning a GPL + rider license if the holder is offering such a rider. It can even be one rider per holder. That's a very easy one and that would likely be the only clues needed for such determination. A similar logic applies to the infamous BSD-4-Clause: if the copyright is from the UC Regent, then the 4th clause has be rescinded and this is equivalent to a 3 clause aka. a BSD-4-Clause-UC. Otherwise, it is a regular 4 clause. The only different between the two is the copyright holder. -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
