Re: Proposal for alternative licenses

2018-08-09 Thread Sam Ellis
Hi Markus, Referring to Appendix IV: SPDX License Expressions in https://spdx.org/sites/cpstandard/files/pages/files/spdxversion2.1.pdf, then SPDX allows for custom licenses to be named in the format LicenseRef-XXX where XXX is whatever you want to call your license. You could use this to

Proposal for alternative licenses

2018-08-09 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, this idea was inspired by https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/4628#issuecomment-411503940 It is a common situation that some project allows for multiple alternative licenses, some of them are "free" and expressible via SPDX, while others of them are proprietary. Currently, this cannot

Re: Proposal for a generic new exception for OpenSSL

2018-08-09 Thread Matija ?uklje
Hi James, if there is interest, I volunteer to help with this one. cheers, Matija -- gsm:+386 41 849 552 www:http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suk...@gabbler.org sip:matija_suk...@ippi.fr -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.

Re: Proposal for a generic new exception for OpenSSL

2018-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2018-08-09 at 08:03 +0200, Matija ?uklje wrote: > Hi James, > > if there is interest, I volunteer to help with this one. Sure ... as a lawyer just tell me if the form of words achieves what I need and is optimal. Thanks, James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages

Re: Proposal for alternative licenses

2018-08-09 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Sam, Thanks for your reply - I think this covers the use case. About the validity of license combinations: The safest way is to have a whitelist with allowed licenses, listing also the kind of linkage and product. (That's how we're handling it at our company, although not yet fully

Re: Proposal for alternative licenses

2018-08-09 Thread David A. Wheeler
Markus Schaber: > It is a common situation that some project allows for multiple alternative > licenses, some of them are "free" and expressible via SPDX, while others of > them are proprietary. ... > As the free licenses are always a legitimate choice for the users and > redistributors of those

Re: Proposal for alternative licenses

2018-08-09 Thread Sam Ellis
Hi, I don't see anything in the SPDX license expression syntax that permits "OTHER"; without the prefix "LicenseRef-" this would be taken to be a valid SPDX short identifier that exists on the license list, which it does not. I think to strictly conform to the specification it would need to be