Hi,

this idea was inspired by 
https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/4628#issuecomment-411503940

It is a common situation that some project allows for multiple alternative 
licenses, some of them are "free" and expressible via SPDX, while others of 
them are proprietary.

Currently, this cannot be expressed well with SPDX license expressions.

As the free licenses are always a legitimate choice for the users and 
redistributors of those packages, I propose that to this express via a special 
(reserved) identifier "CustomAlternateLicensing".

This identifier would just codify the fact that there exist more alternative 
licenses (which cannot be covered via SPDX), but not make any assumptions about 
the intent and nature of those licenses (proprietary, or exotic "free" 
licenses, or whatever).

For example:

- AGPL-3.0-only OR CustomAlternateLicensing

- MPL-2.0 OR LGPL-2.0 OR CustomAlternateLicensing

- (GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0) OR CustomAlternateLicensing

We might allow CustomAlternateLicensing on its own for a package which only has 
proprietary / unknown licenses, just to express the fact that it's an unknown 
license.

However, I tend to forbid cases like the following, because there's no 
alternative which contains only well-known licenses, so they cannot be 
automatically evaluated whether they're allowed or not in a given context:

- GPL-3.0 AND CustomAlternateLicensing

- Apache-2.0 WITH CustomAlternateLicensing


Thanks & Best regards

Markus Schaber

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