Dear Jilayne,

In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
> 
> We are adding this license to the about-to-be-released version 1.19 of
> the SPDX License LIst and I had a couple things I wanted to share with
> you.

Thanks - much appreciated.

> 1) it was suggested to use the short identifier: "ibm-pibs" - do you
> have any objection to "IBM-pibs"?  The reason being that all other SPDX
> License List short identifiers tend towards using capital letters unless
> spelling a word.  I'd prefer to be consistent to this end, but it's not
> a major sticking point either way (in other words, if you are already
> using the all-lower-case short identifier, I don't see why we can't
> adopt that to the SPDX License List - if anyone on the Legal Team
> disagrees with me, please speak up)

I like consistency, too, so please feel free to use "IBM-pibs".
the necessary change to the U_boot code is trivial, and was expected,
as I was aware that I was using an self-made name.  So no objections
from my side.

> 2) in regards to the two different copyright dates you mentioned below
> (2002 and 1995) - I have compared the actual text of the 2002 version
> you listed in this email and the 1995 version you provided links to in a
> subsequent email and the only difference is the date itself.  In this
> case, the SPDX License List matching guidelines would equate these two
> license as the same, as this is only a copyright notice year difference,
> not a difference in the substantive text of the license. 

Agreed.  I think I could find some more versions of this license if I
dig deeper in our old code archives, but those I've seen so far all
differ in the date only.  So your suggestion makes perfect sense.

> If you could get back to me as to the first item as soon as possible,
> that would be great.

Thanks for your help with that!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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