Back to a point that Phlippe made earlier, while we are not really taking sides, I certainly do not think SPDX should be party to encouraging license proliferation. It would probably make sense for us to take a position (or a non-position) explicitly at the top of the license list to the effect that the list is not meant to be an endorsement of these licenses in any way. Further, I think we could say that the SPDX group supports in concept license standardization or does not encourage, but that the license list, itself, is not meant to support this position. It is meant only to standardize references to the most commonly used licenses, not to promote or discourage the use of any license.
On 3/5/13 10:42 AM, "Philippe Ombredanne" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Meier, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: >> I fully agree on this, all licenses should be on the list (including >> Licenses such as Oracle Binary License). >> A prefix to identify local/private maintained licenses would be great. >>รจ use >> one license database >I reckon there is a value in having a comprehensive and universal list >of licenses, but I sincerely doubt this is something that should in >the SPDX list as it is today, for the reasons I mentioned in an >earlier post. > >Instead I could imagine something like a second level >non-authoritative community-curated site that inventories any licenses >could work out. And it could be the funnel for the most prominent >licenses to make it to the SPDX list. > >I sincerely doubt that SPDX contributors would have the time and the >stamina to take on the job on maintaining a curated list like the >current SPDX list for every license that ever shows up. > >-- >Philippe Ombredanne > >+1 650 799 0949 | [email protected] >DejaCode Enterprise at http://www.dejacode.com >nexB Inc. at http://www.nexb.com >_______________________________________________ >Spdx-legal mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
