Re: A suggestion to use Relationships for the licence variants use-case

2022-06-03 Thread Steve Winslow
Hi Sebastian, thanks for this — this is an interesting proposal! I want to give it some more thought, but here are a couple initial reactions: For MATCHES-LICENSE, I gather the idea is that this is intended to be a signal that the custom license text “matches” the other license based on the

Re: A suggestion to use Relationships for the licence variants use-case

2022-06-03 Thread Sebastian Crane
Dear Ria, > LEGALLY-EQUIVALENT-TO bothers me since "the producer of the SPDX > document containing such a Relationship has made the claim that they > believe the two to be legally equivalent" - if I understand that these > tags are being assigned by the vendor, do I trust their legal >

Re: A suggestion to use Relationships for the licence variants use-case

2022-06-03 Thread Ria Schalnat (HPE)
Sebastien, LEGALLY-EQUIVALENT-TO bothers me since "the producer of the SPDX document containing such a Relationship has made the claim that they believe the two to be legally equivalent" - if I understand that these tags are being assigned by the vendor, do I trust their legal determination?

A suggestion to use Relationships for the licence variants use-case

2022-06-03 Thread Sebastian Crane
Dear all, On our joint SPDX Legal/Tech meeting today, one of the use-cases that was discussed was No.6: "issue of capturing variants of licenses which match the same listed license per the matching guidelines" It was one of the use-cases for which solving with licence namespaces was least well

Minutes from joint SPDX Tech Legal call available for review

2022-06-03 Thread Gary O'Neall
Greetings SPDX tech and legal team members, Thanks to all the attendees of today's joint tech / legal call where we discussed the namespace proposals. I just created a pull request with the minutes at https://github.com/spdx/meetings/pull/180 Those of you on the call, please review and