RE: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread Manbeck, Jack
...@lists.spdx.org; 'SPDX-legal'; 'SPDX-biz'; 'Wheeler, David A'; d...@uvic.ca 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

Re: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread D M German
Gisi, Mark twisted the bytes to say: SPDX-License-Notice: This file is licensed under the following license(s): SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT SPDX-License-More-Information: http://wiki.spdx.org/ Mark One aspect of SPDX we struggle with is its relatively weak Mark support for

RE: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread Gary O'Neall
: 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

Re: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Denk
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

RE: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread Wheeler, David A
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

Re: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
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

Re: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Denk
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.