Greetings,
As discussed at the March 18th meeting, it's time to review our FAQ. I've
created a google doc for people to make suggestions for improved wording,
flagging areas that are unclear, etc. I have the permissions wide open.
Please go into 'Suggesting' mode before making any changes.
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Hi Richard,
> -Original Message-
> From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org On Behalf Of
> Richard Purdie
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:12 AM
> To: SPDX-legal
> Subject: Options for metadata license identifiers
...
> My question is what to put in the recipe to identify the license?
>
> We
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:46 AM Philippe Ombredanne
wrote:
> Hi Warner:
> See some comments below.
>
> Hi Thomas:
> This is FYI as you may be able to provide some insights and
> recommendations based on the Linux kernel journey towards
> SPDX that could help Warner and FreeBSD?
>
> On Wed, Mar 17
On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 14:05 +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, Richard Purdie
> wrote:
> [...]
> > The worry is something like:
> >
> > # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> > LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2-1.0.4"
> >
> > makes for very confusing reading and can be badly interpreted
Hello SPDX legal team,
The next regularly-scheduled SPDX legal team meeting will be today,
Thursday, March 18. It will be at our usual time of 9AM PDT / noon EDT.
Note that the US is now on Daylight Savings Time, so please check this
against your local time accordingly.
As you may have seen, vers
Hi Richard:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, Richard Purdie wrote:
[...]
> The worry is something like:
>
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2-1.0.4"
>
> makes for very confusing reading and can be badly interpreted.
FWIW, I have been involved with quite a few license audits for Yoct
Hi,
I wondered if I might seek advice/opinions on a dilemma Yocto Project
is facing with license identifiers.
First, some background. We build software components from source and
combine them together to make up an operating system (most often Linux).
As such we have metadata we refer to as "re
Hi Warner:
See some comments below.
Hi Thomas:
This is FYI as you may be able to provide some insights and
recommendations based on the Linux kernel journey towards
SPDX that could help Warner and FreeBSD?
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:11 PM Warner Losh wrote:
> I'm looking at doing whatever it wou
