Hi Ria,
The challenge of trying to contact the copyright holder re: changing the
license is that often this is old code and being able to identify, let
alone find the copyright holder could be difficult. Even if they were
found and they did change the license, that would only be for new
versions of the code, so the old versions would exist out there for some
time, so the old license would still need to be addressed.
I wish it were easy, but I'm afraid not!
Jilayne
On 8/4/23 1:55 PM, Ria Schalnat (HPE) wrote:
Jilayne,
I wonder if rather than adding all these licenses to SPDX just because
they happen to have some use in either Fedora/Debian if we could
consider an extra external contact to the copyright holder on the
chance they would be willing to relicense the code under something
more standard (e.g., MIT/BSD/Apache/LGPL/GPL/etc.). It just seems
like a lot of extra work to review dozens of licenses that are
variations on already existing ones and then set up the appropriate
files for detection & etc.
If we are talking about a single copyright holder, this shouldn't be
much more difficult than tracking down a license steward to confirm
the language is stable (which we already do ... and for these bespoke
licenses, they may be one and the same) - if there are multiple
contributors then I can see it being a bottomless pit but it seems
like this could be a way to "corral" the sprawl of licenses that might
serve the community better than having a bunch of random licenses in
SPDX.
Please let me know if I’m retreading old ground here – I may not have
been around for past conversations on this topic!
Best regards,
/Ria Farrell Schalnat/(she/her)**
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From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org <Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> On Behalf
Of J Lovejoy
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 12:00 PM
To: SPDX-legal <spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org>
Subject: issues that need input
Hi SPDX-legal,
We currently have 24 license requests that need review. Links below,
please contribute your valuable input! It’d be preferable if to all
decisions were just Steve and I.
Reminder - for those license request issues with the label “used in
major distro” - this means that the license has been determined to
meet the free software license guidelines of either Debian or Fedora
(or both) and is used in one of those distros, which also generally
means the license meets two of the more important SPDX License
inclusion guidelines. In this case, we 2 SPDX-legal members to review
and approve for the license to be accepted.
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1992
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1992>
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1944
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1944>
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2026
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2026> (needs one more
person to review)
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2039
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2039>
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2042
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2042> (needs one more
person to review)
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2043
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2043> (needs one more
person to review)
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2048
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2048> (needs one more
person to review)
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2049
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2049>
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2050
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2050>
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2055
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2055>
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2056
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2056>
Other issues that may implicate decisions about matching markup can be
found at
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22XML+markup+change%22
<https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22XML+markup+change%22>
Thanks,
Jilayne
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