> Ben Finnley <bign...@debian.org> writes: > > Lev Lamberov <dogs...@debian.org> writes: > > > > while working on migration of swi-prolog package to machine-readable > > copyright file I've stuck with two licenses, so asking for an advise on > > how to specify these licenses (I mean what to choose as their short > > names). I was not able to identify them or find in SPDX Open License > > List. > > I think it's best to choose unique names for these unique license texts, > because they are not clearly identical to any other.
Thanks! I'll do as you suggested. > As another action, you might contact the copyright holders and ask them > to choose instead a well-known free-software license text with > thoroughly stidued effects, such as the Expat license; they would then > need to make a new release specifying that exact license text. Since these particular pieces of software are somewhat old (last copyright notices are from 1999 and 2001), I don't think it will work. E. g., according to Wikipedia, Lucert Technologies was merged with Alcatel SA in 2006 and then Alcatel-Lucert was absorbed by Nokia in 2016. Asking for relicense may become a quite tricky thing. Cheers! Lev Lamberov
