Re: BSD 2-Clause license

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2018-02-21 16:07 GMT+01:00 Fernando Nasser <fnasser@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 2018-02-19 11:25 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Fernando Nasser <fnasser@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Would it be possible to add:
>
> BSD 2-clause
>
> to our table of valid licenses?
>
>
> This is already accepted under the "BSD" moniker for Fedora license tags.
>
>
> Oh, I see it now:
>
> BSD License (two clause)    BSD   (...)
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD
>
>
>
> Aren't we using this plain "BSD" abbreviation too liberally?
>
> If you look at SPDX you'll see that there are BSD licenses and then BSD
> licenses, some are ok for FSF, some for OSI, some for both, and some for
> none (which is scary) (ref.: https://spdx.org/licenses/ ).
>
>
> We want to get closer to the SPDX maybe it is time to use the more specific
> abbreviations for these BSD licenses we have.
>
>
> P.S.: Any interest in adding a SPDX abbrev column to our table?  I can try
> and help populating it.
>
>
> --Fernando
>

This discussion was raised few years ago and stalled. I don't think
it's useful to have a SPDX
abbrev column. It'd be more interesting to switch to SPDX (or refine
our own abbreviations).

Regards,
H.

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