Re: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Denk
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 or more different licenses. In that case, I believe you would need to satisfy the obligations of all

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 Wolfgang Denk
Dear Daniel, In message 87ob71qey8@mn.cs.uvic.ca you wrote: Wolfgang Also, in the interest of easy processing of the license tags, I wouls Wolfgang like to propse that multiple licenses in a list are separated by white Wolfgang space only - no OR, no commas, nor any other

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 this example doesn't work either. If you mix a license that allows modify and keep the modified code closed with GPL, the only legally possible result is GPLed code. I see little value in constructing such more or less artificial examples. This is

Re: meta-tag page - part II

2013-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear David, In message 9f8e44bc27e22046b84ec1b9364c66a1a8054ab...@exch07-4850.ida.org you wrote: Note this comment: # Except as otherwise marked, this code is licensed under the MIT license. # However, the override code that patches clisp is derived # from clisp, which is GPLv2. # Thus

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