Hi, I agree with Steve that the expression syntax should not be expanded with a new operator. In my opinion it is not necessary, as the license is no longer BUSL-1.1 once the change date is reached. As already stated in [Fedora-legal-list] Re: Review and Guidance needed - licenses transforming based on time - legal - Fedora mailing-lists (fedoraproject.org) ( https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GO2NRMDZK4L6DIIOBP5F6TF6AOJRUYUH/ ) , the code is then covered by GPL-2.0 and thus can be distributed under that license. Having an "AS" operator wouldn't make things easier or even more clear. For the consumer of the package (and also the distributing entity) it is not at all relevant that it was once distributed under a different license. After the change date only the change license should be relevant.
> > For example, if a package foo by company baz has BUSL-1.1 and sets the > change date to 2024-08-01 to convert to GPL-3.0-or-later, but the > company goes under on 2024-07-31, we don't really have a way to > represent this when it becomes fine to ship regardless. I don't see any company using the BUSL to go back to their old versions and change the license notice there. The license text already says that it is ok to distribute the package as GPL-3.0-or-later after 2024-07-31 in this example. After that date anyone can take the code at that specific commit and package it for distribution. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1886): https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/1886 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/107317043/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/leave/2655439/21656/1698928721/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
