RE: Providing access to FSF license metadata

2017-10-13 Thread Gary O'Neall
> -Original Message- > From: W. Trevor King [mailto:wk...@tremily.us] > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 12:44 PM > To: Richard Fontana; J Lovejoy > Cc: Gary O'Neall; spdx-t...@lists.spdx.org; SPDX-legal > Subject: Re: Providing access to FSF license metadata > > On

Re: Providing access to FSF license metadata

2017-10-13 Thread Richard Fontana
W. Trevor King wrote: > They also list the Expat license as free and GPL-compatible [5], and > it matches the SPDX MIT [6]. So you can say the FSF considers the > SPDX MIT free and GPL-compatible. Ah right - so not as interesting an example as others I was thinking of. I've been thinking about

Re: Providing access to FSF license metadata

2017-10-13 Thread W. Trevor King
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 02:30:18PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > By the bye, one thing I'd find useful, either inside or outside of > SPDX, is some notion of correspondence of an FSF-approved license > with a counterpart OSI-approved, or SPDX-recognized, license. > > To illustrate, consider the

Re: Providing access to FSF license metadata (was: Issues added based on this weeks Legal Call)

2017-10-13 Thread J Lovejoy
SPDX Legal Team co-lead opensou...@jilayne.com > On Oct 13, 2017, at 12:02 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:20:33AM -0700, Gary O'Neall wrote: >> There is a request by the FSF and approved by the legal team to add >> a property to the listed licenses