Dear all, the current draft of DEP 5 contains the following instruction:
“There are many versions of the MIT license. Please use Expat instead, when it matches.” This recommendation predates the achievements of the SPDX work group, which assembled a reference list of licenses and gave short names to them, for which there is strong convergence with the ones used in Debian and Fedora. It was also announced on the SPDX blog that the OSI adopted the SPDX short license names. http://www.spdx.org/content/celebrate-small-victories-and-cheers-open-source-initiative I think that we can consider that this resolves potentials ambiguities on how to define the “MIT” license, by referring to SPDX's definition. http://spdx.org/licenses/MIT I therefore propose to remove from DEP 5 the recommendation to use “Expat” instead of “MIT”, and to add it to the license list. Related discussions: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/08/msg00107.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/12/msg00047.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
