Re: documentation/examples of License Ref?

2020-04-24 Thread Luis Villa
Thanks, Steve and Kyle. The link to the draft is particularly helpful. I don't want to rehash the many, many discussions about which licenses should be included in the official list; suffice to say, are there any best practices folks here are aware of for naming these? I saw

Re: documentation/examples of License Ref?

2020-04-24 Thread Gary O'Neall
Hi Richard, Here are some minutes from a previous review mentioning a potential long term solution for non-listed exceptions: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Archive/license_expression_syntax I also recall a discussion on the topic. It has been a while (and my memory is far from

Re: documentation/examples of License Ref?

2020-04-24 Thread Steve Winslow
Hi Richard, Thanks for this -- all good points and I agree, in the example you gave I'd represent it in the way you described. As an FYI, regarding custom exceptions (and agreed that the example you gave wouldn't fit into the "exception list" category) -- there is an open issue for consideration

Re: documentation/examples of License Ref?

2020-04-24 Thread Richard Fontana
If you have a standard license text (that maps to one of the SPDX license identifiers) coupled with some additional nonstandardized terms, which are not captured by anything in the exceptions list (which IIRC are not supposed to cover supplementary restrictive terms anyway, though I seem to