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To: Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office)
Cc: Manbeck, Jack; Jilayne Lovejoy; spdx-t...@lists.spdx.org; SPDX-biz;
SPDX-legal
Subject: Re: meta-tag page
Dear Scott,
On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office)
scott.lam...@hp.commailto:scott.lam...@hp.com
Wolfgang,
I liked Bradley's suggestion for syntax of the one-liner because it was
also short, but slightly more explicit about the intention. I agree that
an explanation in a readme could make this clear, but I think we are
trying to handle the case when the file might turn up in another project
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Subject: Re: meta-tag page - part II
Dear Gary,
In message 001f01cec2e5$9f1d9b20$dd58d160$@com you wrote:
The AND situation would occur if you have a file which contains code
from two or more different sources using two
...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of D M German
Mark Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 7:50 PM
Mark To: Wheeler, David A
Mark Cc: spdx-t...@lists.spdx.org; SPDX-biz; SPDX-legal
Mark Subject: Re: meta-tag page
Wheeler, David A twisted the bytes to say:
David From a programmer's perspective I think
David Dmg:
Following this rational, would it be possible to recommend something in the
line of:
BEGIN_LICENSE
This file is licensed under the SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER
For more information see URL-TO-SPDX-WEB-SITE-WITH-iNFO
END_LICENSE
that makes three things explicit:
* It
: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:w...@denx.de]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 1:42 AM
To: Gary O'Neall
Cc: 'Wheeler, David A'; 'SPDX-legal'; spdx-t...@lists.spdx.org; 'SPDX-biz';
d...@uvic.ca
Subject: Re: meta-tag page - part II
Dear Gary,
In message 001f01cec2e5$9f1d9b20$dd58d160$@com you wrote
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Wolfgang Denk w...@denx.de wrote:
The approach the U-Boot project has taken here attempts to support
Strong Compliance while at the same time getting rid of redundant
information to the extend possible:
- The file Licenses/README contains the project-global
Dear Gary,
In message 002f01cec378$2f2a3470$8d7e9d50$@com you wrote:
If there is no conflict in license terms, however, I do not see an issue
in using this approach. I run across a large volume of MIT style and BSD
style licenses mixed in with GPL code, for example. Using AND'd
licenses is
I said:
David From a programmer's perspective I think the cryptic approach is FAR
superior. There are lots of tools that can quickly examine files and return
text with the pattern SPDX-License-Identifier: , and other tools that can
trivially process the stuff after it. The above alternative
Wolfgang Denk [mailto:w...@denx.de]
But there there is no actual choice. Yes, you take the parts of the project
that do not include the GPL code - and you can use this code under the MIT
license for other purposes. But as soon as we talk about the thing as a
whole (say, the linked
Wolfgang Denk wrote at 04:42 (EDT):
the files are now licensed under GPL-2.0, i. e. the or later option
had to be dropped for the file as a whole, because it was not
available for the parts imported from Linux.
Files aren't copyright-magical-single-units. Nothing in the copyright
statute
Dear Scott,
On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program
Office) scott.lam...@hp.commailto:scott.lam...@hp.com wrote:
Thanks for updating this page. In particular for adding the rationale
for why tagging is important in the Introduction section. For me, the
main impetus of
Dear D M German,
In message 524e2cda.c22de00a.39d5.8...@mx.google.com you wrote:
David From a programmer's perspective I think the cryptic approach is FAR
David superior. There are lots of tools that can quickly examine files and
David return text with the pattern
Dear Mark,
In message 01813e194c768044a6486db30b5338ccb711e...@ala-mba.corp.ad.wrs.com
you wrote:
Example 1:
--
File: ./cairo-1.10.2.tar.gz.txt/cairo-array.c (see attachment 1)
NOTICE (simplified): The file is licensed to you under either the LGPL-2.1
or MPL-1.1 at your option.
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Subject: RE: meta-tag page
Dmg:
Following this rational, would it be possible to recommend something in the
line of:
BEGIN_LICENSE
This file is licensed under the SPDX_LICENSE_IDENTIFIER For more
information see URL-TO-SPDX-WEB-SITE-WITH-iNFO END_LICENSE
:14 PM
To: Jilayne Lovejoy; Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office)
Cc: spdx-t...@lists.spdx.org; SPDX-biz; SPDX-legal
Subject: RE: meta-tag page
Coming back to a higher level... What is the purpose of this page? We need
to be very clear on this. In my mind it is to propose a best practice
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