Hello Simon, thanks. Simon J. Gerraty wrote in <6150.1754608...@kaos.jnpr.net>: |Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: |>| Replace license with just SPDX BSD-2-Clause |> |> That is very interesting! And .. are you really sure this is |> right with BSD etc licenses which explicitly require that the |> license text is included? |> So i looked and found [1] which says | |I checked with one of our IP lawyers who said just the SPDX tag "should" |suffice, but best to remove the verbage that conflicts. | |> SPDX IDs are intending to express information about |> licenses. Copyright notices ‐ statements about who owns the |> copyright in a file or project ‐ are outside the scope of SPDX |> short-form IDs. |> Therefore, you should not remove or modify existing copyright |> notices in files when adding an SPDX ID. | |Except that in this case the verbage I removed is sufficiently different |from the text of https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.html |as to potentially trigger arguments - so better safe that sorry, |and I hate the idea of a file which is 90% license, which is why I had |that abbreviated version in the first place. | |If the lawyer says I can get away with just the tag, that works for me.
This sounds complicated enough to keep on going with the full regalia here. |> However i am sure you do not do something like this "just like |> that", and would be very interested -- it would be nice to be able |> to vaporise the file header -- i always have that pitfall moment |> when i look into Plan9 / 9front source code, which then simply |> starts off (and very often with "#include <u.h>", just like that). | |ISTR the original BSD convention was to not waste space on copyrights in |tiny files, I was forced into putting licenses on everything by some of |my consulting clients back in the '90s And you were improving there. |HTH |--sjg --End of <6150.1754608...@kaos.jnpr.net> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |During summer's humble, here's David Leonard's grumble | |The black bear, The black bear, |blithely holds his own holds himself at leisure |beating it, up and down tossing over his ups and downs with pleasure | |Farewell, dear collar bear
