On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:07 AM Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Christian: > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 11:27 PM Christian Ehrhardt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi SPDX, > > I was refreshing the license info on a Debian package and found two > > licenses that seemed to be MIT-variants that I wasn't sure about. The > > reason I looked at it was mostly technical as the current way to > > identify them was triggering a lintian warning, but as I said I > > wondered what would be correct. > > > > I was not finding the two derivatives in your license list at [1] nor > > as an exception in [2]. > > There are already a bunch of MIT-* identifiers, but none matched the > > two that I had. > > So I had no "official identifiers" to use and just came up with two for now. > > > > I changed the identifiers like > > - MIT(*) -> MIT-ibm > > - MIT(**) -> MIT-no-ad > > and that satisfies Lintian at least. > > The full text of those can be found at [3][4]. > > > > I'm full of questions: > > - having a look at them, would you think they should be added to your > > list and get assigned official identifiers? > > - Are these even licenses on their own that deserve an ID? > > - Would it need the project or License owner to do such a request? > > - I'm neither of that and just looked at it by accident - If needed > > I'd be ok to file an issue as outlined in [5] and discuss, but I'm not > > sure I could do much more on it. > > > > [1]:https://spdx.org/licenses/ > > [2]: https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html > > [3]: > > https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/base64.c#L4 > > [4]: > > https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/resolutionSet/libvmwarectrl.h#L4 > > [5]: > > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/license-inclusion-principles.md > > > I ran scancode-toolkit and the license in base64.c [1] is identified > as an ISC alright. The only (IMHO not material) change is the sentence > "modify, and distribute" with a plain "and" instead of "modify, and/or > distribute" with "and/or". The relevant ISC variant that was detected > is at [2]. The author "INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM" is different but > this is within matching guidelines and > > Note that the second license in this file is not tracked by SPDX for > now and is detected as "ibm-dhcp" or SPDX LicenseRef-scancode-ibm-dhcp > [3] > > In the file libvmwarectrl.h [4] scancode detects another license which > is not yet tracked by SPDX and that we call "xfree86-1.0" or SPDX > LicenseRef-scancode-xfree86-1.0 [5] which is the name used where we > found it [6] > > /hth
You really did help, thanks for the pointers and license disambiguation! I think with that in place there is no further need to fix (in project) or track (SPDX) them in more detail. Thanks! > [1]: > https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/misc/base64.c#L4 > [2]: > https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/3f7da81d6b207ac2b1d384defb83a5f2c82216f4/src/licensedcode/data/rules/isc_9.RULE > [3]: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/ibm-dhcp > [4]: > https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/resolutionSet/libvmwarectrl.h#L4 > [5]: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/xfree86-1.0 > [6]: http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html#18 > [7]: > https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/src/packagedcode/debian_copyright.py > -- > Cordially > Philippe Ombredanne > > +1 650 799 0949 | [email protected] > DejaCode - What's in your code?! - http://www.dejacode.com > AboutCode - Open source for open source - https://www.aboutcode.org > nexB Inc. - http://www.nexb.com > > > > > -- Christian Ehrhardt Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1422): https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/1422 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/84078316/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/leave/2655439/21656/1698928721/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
