Hi Soren, Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Sunday, January 15, 2023 5:17:10 PM MST Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Debian, of course, prefers the Expat name as it is more precise. > > > > According to > > https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat#Differences_between_DEP5_a > > nd_SPDX SPDX does not have the Expat license. They do have though the "MIT > > License" (the one and only ;-), so that would imply that they're not the > > same license. > > Anyone who tells you there is a One And Only MIT License is trolling you. ;)
Seems as if I should used more smileys on that sentence. Consider having been trolled by myself. ;-) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Ambiguity_and_variants Or said otherwise: I read exactly that page (and https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Expat) before sending my reply. > "The name 'MIT License' is potentially ambiguous. Yes, but IMHO https://spdx.org/licenses/ managed to get quite a good list on all the variants including unamigous short names for them. Except that they miss the "Expat license". Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE