Re: NTP license question

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 06/27/2018 01:09 PM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm reviewing OpenJDK and licensecheck pointed me at:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/cf09f0b56efd/src/jdk.crypto.cryptoki/share/native/libj2pkcs11/pkcs11.h
>>
>> to be NTP. Is "NTP" this license?
>> https://opensource.org/licenses/NTP
>>
>> If that's the case, why isn't it listed in the "Good Licenses" list here?
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses
>>
>> What's the license of the above file?
>
> Teasing this apart:
>
> 1, The "NTP" license is just the MIT license, which is why we do not
> have "NTP" in our Good License list.
>
> 2. That file (pkcs11) is not under the NTP variant of the MIT license.
> It could be argued that it is a variant of the NTP variant of the MIT
> license... but that road leads to madness, and since the SPDX model
> frowns upon the ideas of variants... The wording is unique enough to
> merit adding it as a new license for the list, so I have done so,
> calling it "RSA".
>
> So just swap "RSA" for NTP in that OpenJDK license list.

Thank you, Tom!

Cheers,
Severin

> ~tom
>
>
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