Some meson.build, for example, have a SPDX-License-Identifier: tag, where "MIT" is mentionned, applying (I think) to the file itself, and the project has an entry with a pair (license: 'MIT') applying to the data by itself.
But, for example, xcbproto has a license with a (classical, for me) fourth clause forbiding use of the names of the authors without permission to advertise etc. Acoording to: https://spdx.org/licenses/ this is identified as "X11", the "MIT" being the same without this fourth paragraph. (I suspect this distinction is rather new.) When creating meson files for building, is there some rule regarding this? I think that the correct way is to state 'X11' or 'MIT' or whatever matches COPYING or COPYRIGHTS or whatever file explains the license status and to conform, simply because this exists and is standardized, to the SPDX list of identifiers. What do other think about this? Note: I'm not planing to review "correct" attribution between X11 and MIT in all the Xorg projects---I'm sufficiently late on my schedule with what I have to do without starting to rover around. Furthermore, X11 has been historically identified as 'MIT'... -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
