On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:20 AM, J Lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > During the SPDX bake-off it came up that NTP > https://spdx.org/licenses/NTP.html can match to HPND > https://spdx.org/licenses/HPND.html due to the template nature of HPND. The > folks in the bakeoff wanted to know if we ought to deprecate one of these > licenses in favor of using the other or how a tool should reconcile which > license to “pick” where both could be a valid answer. Talking about this > here in Berlin and looking at the licenses, can we please discuss the > following items on the next legal call: > > 1) Both of these licenses are OSI-approved, which is why they are both on > the SPDX License List. Given that we endeavor to have all OSI-approved > licenses on the SPDX License List (even if they are old or have been > voluntarily deprecated by the author, as has HPND), so I don’t view > deprecation as an option. All agree? > > 2) As to HPND, we did not have markup for this license, but it needs it - > Sam has added markup to the XML template and Brad has reviewed. It is > flagged for review by the legal team: > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pull/89/files - can we get another > set of eyes on this, both from the legal perspective and to check the > markup? > > 3) OSI has comments as to how to “match” this license at the bottom of their > page - https://opensource.org/licenses/HPNDl - should we add this to the > Notes field, as is suggested in the XML file (do we really need it, > especially if we have the markup and since the line about white space and > capitalization merely repeats a couple of our matching guidelines?) > > 4) I would recommend adding a comment in the Notes field for each license > along the lines of the following: > - for NTP: "This license is the same as HPND, when taking into consideration > the templatizing options given in that license. This is included as a > separate license on the SPDX License List because it is separately approved > by the OSI.” > > - HPND: “Due to the templatization options of this license, it can be the > same text as NTP license. This is included as a separate license on the SPDX > License List because it is separately approved by the OSI.” > > Please edit as needed. Perhaps we can then ask the OSI to add similar > language on their pages as well, so it is all consistent.
This all make sense. The only point is that the licenses are not the same, but are similar: the HPND has an additional warranty disclaimer. So I am not sure why this would ever be an issue matching-wise and this may not warrant a note in the license. -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
