Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:13:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>, FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD? Message-ID: <201810161513.w9GFDPCA071555@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <8A9D0204-17A7-480D-AD51-58A518AE6E27@yahoo.com>
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> On 2018-Oct-15, at 10:25 PM, Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > it seems the master list of SPDX Identifiers is maintained by the Linux Foundation and not OSI: > > > > https://spdx.org/licenses/ > > > > The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD is there: > > > > https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD.html > > And it does not agree with the other 2, listing from the above > first: > > PROVIDED BY THE FREEBSD PROJECT > IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FREEBSD PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE > > (yep: no "AND CONTRIBUTORS" for the first line that I listed) > > vs. > > PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS > IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE > > vs. > > PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS > IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE > > > Messy. (I've not double checked the rest of the wording.) And this is why ultimately SPDX tagging should leave the original license in a file in place, this dis-joint nature creates space for these types of problems. Rather simple to just not have them and leave the license in the file as has been done for 30 years. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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