V Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 08:53:09PM +0100, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a): > There are two common ways to find out what SPDX identifier you should use in > such cases. > > > 1) You can use https://github.com/spdx/spdx-license-diff and use it to > identify your license. This is a Chrome and Firefox plugin and allows you to > select the text; and in the context menu, you can choose to identify the > license. It will print, e.g., that it matches 60% of the MIT-feh license and > highlight the difference. Or... > > > 2) you can navigate to > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/ > > in the search box above the first table, you enter your license and filter > the content. If you enter "MIT", it will find you 26 licenses. Out of them, > 15 have "MIT" in the "Fedora abbreviation" column (Hmm, this should be > changed to "legacy name"). Now you have to open the link in the "URL" column > and find your package's license. This may look painful, but you usually find > the correct license within a few clicks. > > SPDX has a web page <https://tools.spdx.org/app/check_license/> which can help identify a license. It works to some degree. E.g. it operates on license texts. Not on license declarations. It also requires the license without a context. E.g. without warranty disclaimers. Without programming laguage comment markers.
Though I usually resort to opening all MIT-like licenses, "X11" is one of them, from an SPDX license list <https://spdx.org/licenses/> and comparing them against my license. -- Petr
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