Re: BSD-2-Clause

Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 14 Mar 2019 06:38:38 -0400

So this is the difficulty. We know of an order of magnitude of different variants of BSD and MIT (many of which are unclassified by the OSI and SPDX). They're all functionally identical. Are you volunteering to audit all the Fedora packages to correct the license tags? I'm not. :)
Today, we don't burden the packager to determine which slight rewording of BSD is in their package, especially when there is no real benefit from being pedantic.

~tom

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:17 AM Fernando Nasser <fnasser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    On 2019-03-14 6:06 a.m., Tom Callaway
      wrote:

      That's just BSD.

    Thanks Tom, I do see in https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

    Note: This license has also been called the
        "Simplified BSD License" and the "FreeBSD License". See also the 3-clause BSD License.
    but this causes us some problems...

    The licenses are collected automatically and included in the
      package docs and there are instance like:
        <packageName>liquid</packageName>

          <version>0.1.0-1</version>

          <licenses>

            <license>

              <name>BSD-2-Clause</name>

      <url>https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause</url>

    and other similar entries with this license abbreviation.

    The License: label has a and with the 3 licenses listed, and just
      BSD will appear discrepant from what is included by the
      automatically generated licenses file.

    As https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
      got its own SPDX identifier "BSD-2-Clause" could we not add it
      too?

    Cheers,
    Fernando

        ~tom

        On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 5:59 AM
          Fernando Nasser <fnasser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

        Hi,

          Would it be possible to add to

          https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses

          and corresponding databases the license:

          BSD-2-Clause    https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

          Thanks!

          P.S.: We currently have only  BSD-2-Clause-Patent 

          https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD-2-Clause-Patent

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