Re: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example

2017-09-15 Thread W. Trevor King
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 06:02:00AM +, Gisi, Mark wrote: > How does one define “accurate and complete” when a package’s “top > level” license does not represent all the files contained within the > package (think license diversity). Although there was no standard > agreement on what “accurate

RE: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example

2017-09-15 Thread Gisi, Mark
rg<mailto:spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org>> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 1:13:51 AM Subject: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example How to move forward: It appears we have not collectively agreed on what the problem is. I believe this is because there are at lea

RE: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example

2017-09-13 Thread Copenhaver, Karen
to understand the disconnect. That is always the right first step. From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org [mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Mitchell Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:02 PM To: Richard Fontana Cc: SPDX-legal Subject: Re: Package licensing part I

Re: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example

2017-09-13 Thread W. Trevor King
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:07:52AM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > The other SPDX is the use of something that *superficially* looks > like SPDX-conformant license expressions to describe licensing in a > way that is, I guess, outside the intended scope of SPDX. Examples > of this nonconformant

Re: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example

2017-09-13 Thread Kyle Mitchell
My first order of business here is to reaffirm my gratitude to the stalwarts of the SPDX team. A frankly staggering amount of work and thought has gone into this and other lists over the years, and a very nice portion of that has settled its way out into various outputs---spec, license list,

Re: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Fontana
ot;Mark Gisi" <mark.g...@windriver.com> To: "SPDX-legal" <spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 1:13:51 AM Subject: Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example How to move forward: It appears we have not collectively agreed

Package licensing part I - the approach - was Github example

2017-09-12 Thread Gisi, Mark
How to move forward: It appears we have not collectively agreed on what the problem is. I believe this is because there are at least two different stakeholders expressing two different sets of requirements for the License Expression Language (LEL). Stakeholder 1 (Traditional): Linux