Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 06:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r335454 - head/usr.bin/ar Message-ID: <201806211326.w5LDQSUx079522@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2A%2BLx7CkJa74b72fvaY6G34Xkve6qPVBWdii=CPhUwjLw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 20 June 2018 at 20:48, Rodney W. Grimes > <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > My claim still stands, the commit message and reality do not match, > > Ed claimed that he was switching to 2-clause FreeBSD license, yet > > it does not appear to actually do that. > > The commit message could have been more clear indeed. Thanks for acknowledging that. > > > Does SPDX have rules for dual tagging a file? I seem to recall that > > there was some way to do that at least. > > It does (using license1 AND/OR license2), but in this case one of the > licenses is a subset of the other. I think it would be best to indicate that both exist in the SPDX tag so that decisions can be made about this rather bad situation of licenses. Though it may be a subset it is still unclear as to exactly what this means, or how to apply them seperatly. Technically the 2 clause "authors" are above the 3 clause license in the file, does that mean that clause 3 applies to them too? I do not believe that was the original intent, but that is the literal fact. Use of above and below in the license is probably bad legal form and should have an absolute reference rather than an ambibous relative reference. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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