"unclear version" and OR-MAYBE operators (was: reminder: call Thursday)

2017-09-27 Thread W. Trevor King
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:49:46PM -0600, J Lovejoy wrote: > Kate and I have discussed our last proposal (which was summarized > here: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/only-operator-proposal) > with Richard Stallman and John Sullivan as to concerns the FSF, as > steward of the GNU licenses,

Re: [v2] New license proposal: GNUVerbatim

2017-09-27 Thread John Sullivan
"W. Trevor King" writes: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: >> Is this a joke or are you seriously suggesting that you want to >> track the license of licenses? > > It's not a joke. I have a repository that contains two files with > content

Re: revised wording for top of exceptions page (was: Linux syscall exception agreed documentation)

2017-09-27 Thread J Lovejoy
Thanks for the reminder, Bradley. and yes, the final version is in the email that Trevor referenced which was: The SPDX License List includes a list of exceptions. These exceptions grant an exception to a license condition or additional permissions beyond those granted in a license; they are

reminder: call Thursday

2017-09-27 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi all, This is a reminder for our call tomorrow (Thursday) at the usual time: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team Agenda is as follows: 1) only / or later clarification and proposal: Kate and I have discussed our last proposal (which was summarized

Git's COPYING preface (was: [v2] New license proposal: GNUVerbatim)

2017-09-27 Thread W. Trevor King
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:26:10PM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:15 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: > > I have a repository that contains two files with content under the > > GNUVerbatim license [1,2] (as well as some content by Linus, > > presumably under the GPL-2.0 or a later

Re: [v2] New license proposal: GNUVerbatim

2017-09-27 Thread Kate Stewart
Hi Trevor, On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:15 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > > Is this a joke or are you seriously suggesting that you want to > > track the license of licenses? > > It's not a joke. I have a

Re: [v2] New license proposal: GNUVerbatim

2017-09-27 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:22 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: > Discussion spawned by my v1 Verbatim proposal [1] seems to have died > down, so here's a v2. Changes since v1: > > * Renamed from ‘Verbatim’ to ‘GNUVerbatim’ to allow for other verbatim > names in the future (e.g. if