Hello, I'm trying to use SPDX identifiers for xmag-1.0.7 package <https://www.x.org/archive//individual/app/xmag-1.0.7.tar.xz> and I run into difficulties with identifying MIT-family licenses. Specifically, two of them: CutPaste.c file reads: Copyright 1989, 1998 The Open Group Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OPEN GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Except as contained in this notice, the name of The Open Group shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from The Open Group. That's clearly MIT-open-group <https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-open-group.html> license. But Fedora's license list in /usr/share/fedora-license-data/licenses/fedora-licenses.json distributed within fedora-license-data-1.0-1.fc37 does not recognize this identifier. Could legal team look at this license, add the identifier to the Fedora database, and decide whether it is acceptable for Fedora packages? Then CutPaste.h file reads: Copyright (C) 1999 The XFree86 Project, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the XFree86 Project. It looks like MIT <https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html> license except the file has an additional "Except as contained..." paragraph. Is it "MIT" license? Or is it a different one from a <https://spdx.org/licenses/> list? Or is it a completely new variant? Please note that both these licenses are not new to xmag package. They were there probably from the very first days of Fedora. So far I postponed converting xmag Fedora package to SPDX syntax. That will mask these issues, but I'd like to solve them sooner than later to be ready when SPDX syntax becomes mandatory. -- Petr
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