On 25.2.2015 01:42, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > This is SGI Free Software License B version 2.0 which is described on > GNU.org in a following way [1]: > > The SGI Free Software License B version 2.0 is a free software > license. It is essentially identical to the X11 License [2], with > an optional alternative way of providing license notices. > > and marked with a green line as compatible with GNU GPL. > > Is it ‘just MIT’ or not, depends on what you call ‘just MIT’. There are > at least two popular MIT licenses: Expat [3] and X11 [4]; if both are > ‘just MIT’ to you, then SGI FSL-B 2.0 is too. Its last paragraph is a > non-endorsement clause identical to that of the latter one. It’s the > second paragraph that makes SGI FSL-B 2.0 different from either Expat > and X11; to be precise it makes it slightly more permissive, allowing > hyperlinking to license (à la Creative Commons Attribution) instead of > providing its full text. (However, I have no idea, who might take > advantage from this permission – the full legal text is just 25 lines > long.) > > [1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#SGIFreeB > [2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#X11License > [3]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat > [4]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:X11 > Thanks Dmitry, as "just MIT" I meant if I should use "MIT" in the RPM license tag. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
