I understand and agree with David's concerns - also coming from a tooling
perspective.
However, I believe this is a different problem than the FSF issue and a problem
we have today with the current license expression syntax and the current
license list.
It seems we are talking about 2
J Lovejoy writes:
> Hi All,
>
> Kate and I just had a call with Richard Stallman of the FSF to try and
> come to a resolution everyone can be happy with, taking into
> consideration the ask from the FSF and the many thorough discussions
> we’ve had on the mailing list and
Hi David,
I think your points are good ones, but it seems to me they go to the
separate issues of "file:detected license" and "package:concluded license."
The clarity of the spec argument is aimed at making the "file:detected
license" case more explicit, and if it leaves tools with NOASSERTION
J Lovejoy:
> Do NOT add a identifier or operator, etc. for the found-license-text-only
> scenario where you don’t know if the intent of the copyright holder was “only
> or “or later” and are thus left to interpret clause
I disagree, sorry.
> - we don’t need to solve this right now and we can
Great. We will start calling you two Kings Solomon.
From: on behalf of Jilayne Lovejoy
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:38 PM
To: SPDX-legal
Subject: update on only/or later etc.
Hi All,
Kate and I