If the wording of openvpn-openssl-exception is acceptable, we could "templatize" its text and replace "OpenVPN" with "<SoftwareProduct>" and "OpenVPN Technologies, Inc." with "<CopyrightHolder>". For example of a simple templatized license, see the NTP license: https://spdx.org/licenses/NTP.html
-- zvr – -----Original Message----- From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org <Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> On Behalf Of James Bottomley Sent: Friday, 10 August, 2018 18:14 To: Matija ?uklje <mat...@suklje.name>; spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org Subject: Re: Proposal for a generic new exception for OpenSSL On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 16:08 +0200, Matija ?uklje wrote: > Dne četrtek, 09. avgust 2018 ob 02:46:21 CEST je James Bottomley > napisal(a): > > Most of the alternative formulations go for wordier versions, but I > > think brevity is better. > > I have pondered on this for longer than I thought I would, but don’t > have a proposal I would be happy with yet. Thanks for thinking about it. I was hoping the problem of finding a generic way of putting it would appeal to someone. > Would you mind sharing which others versions you found? Can also be > off- list, if preferred. Sure, this is the last one I did for the secure boot tools: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/efitools.git/tree/COPYING This is what GNU did for wget. They really didn't want it in their licence, so the COPYING file is an unmodified GPL-3.0+ licence and the exception is placed into every file, e.g: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/tree/src/http.c Stunnel has this: https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_copying.html Dejacode (a sort of SPDX look alike) has one from Tideslash: https://enterprise.dejacode.com/licenses/public/openssl-exception-gpl-3.0-plus/ One of the Linux Distros actually collected a couple of standard forms (but they look very similar to the wget ones): https://www.calculate-linux.org/packages/licenses/GPL-2+-with-openssl-exception https://www.calculate-linux.org/packages/licenses/GPL-3-with-openssl-exception Trolltech has an elaborate exception clause for Qt: https://doc.qt.io/archives/4.3/license-gpl-exceptions.html And, of course, SPDX codifies the openvpn one: https://spdx.org/licenses/openvpn-openssl-exception.html These are just the handful I turned up the last time I had to write an OpenSSL exception. James Intel Deutschland GmbH Registered Address: Am Campeon 10-12, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 8853-0, www.intel.de Managing Directors: Christin Eisenschmid, Christian Lamprechter Chairperson of the Supervisory Board: Nicole Lau Registered Office: Munich Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 186928 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2370): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/message/2370 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/24235315/21656 Group Owner: spdx-legal+ow...@lists.spdx.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
