> On Sep 30, 2018, at 8:18 AM, Philippe Ombredanne <pombreda...@nexb.com> wrote:
>
> Mike:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:45 PM Mike Linksvayer <m...@gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>> I did not know license list candidates must have the general attributes of
>> an "open source" license, but I'm glad to learn of the requirement.
>> I wonder how the CC NC and ND licenses made it through (I searched the list
>> archives a bit and didn't come up with anything, probably due to my own lack
>> of search savvy or persistence), and whether those identifiers should be
>> deprecated?
>> Mostly this is idle curiosity on my part, please ignore if annoying. I can
>> live with incongruity. :)
>
> If I recall correctly: when we started we did add wholesale all the CC
> licenses without much discrimination.
> That's an incongruity that I can live with alright.
>
Philippe is correct. We didn’t have written guidelines (aka, the “inclusion
principles) for the first few iterations of the license list. If memory serves,
all the CC licenses were recommended to be added and so we did. Remember, the
SPDX License List began around 2009-2010 - that’s a long time ago now ;)
Later we realized other people might want to suggest licenses (“other people”
meaning - other than the original people who came up with the original list)
and we ought to have some guidelines. This probably also may have been
precipitated by the question of whether to add other clearly non-open source
licenses to the list - while the SPDX spec can be used with any software
license, it was decided (multiple times) SPDX License List was to remain for
open source licenses and use the OSD as a guiding principle, but without strict
adherence (that’s what the OSI is for). And so here we are.
Mike - if you really wanted to know the when of it all, I suppose I could try
to figure that out, but I’m not sure it matters at this point (nor am I sure
it’s worth my time, versus dealing with the log of issues in the current
queue!) If there is some historical background to this end we could add
somewhere - either on the overview page or some other place, do let me know if
you think that would be helpful.
Cheers,
Jilayne
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