On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:21:43PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: > There are also other works under that license, e.g. [4], which use the > exact same language. > > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this > license document, but changing it is not allowed. > … > [4]: https://developercertificate.org/
Looking over this again, I was somewhat surprised that
developercertificate.org used “this license document” is a
certification and/or grant and not really a license. If this gets
added to our official license list, I recommend making “license”
optional in the adopted form, so folks could cleanly use it for
non-licenses as well. Using our current XML syntax, the Verbatim
entry would look something like:
<SPDX name="Verbatim License" identifier="Verbatim" osi-approved="false">
<urls>
<url>https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html</url>
</urls>
<license>
<title><p>Verbatim License</p></title>
<p>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of
this <optional>license</optional> document, but changing it is
not allowed.
</p>
</license>
</SPDX>
It's not clear to if the Verbatim license is long enough to be
copyrightably, but if it is I'd guess it's copyright 1989 by the FSF
and self-licensed under the Verbatim license as a subset of the GPL
1.0 (unless someone can turn up an earlier reference).
We probably also want to contact the FSF for permission to extract
this license text from the GPL-1.0 (or any of the other documents
where it occurs) to be extra clear we aren't violating the GPL-1.0's
Verbatim license. And as the presumed authors, they're probably
interested in whether or not it gets a SPDX identifier.
Cheers,
Trevor
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