Re: API change and License change: python-ezdxf 0.18

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On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 11:44 AM Ben Beasley <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In python-ezdxf 0.18, a few new Python modules are included that are
> derived from other software. The License is therefore no longer simply
> “MIT.” Of the new modules in question, one is a fork of its original
> upstream. I have treated it as a bundled dependency, adding the
> appropriate virtual Provides. The others are full rewrites from
> different languages; the licenses of the original projects still affect
> the ezdxf License, but I have not treated them as bundled dependencies
> since no code is copied from the original projects. See the comments in
> the spec file above the License field if the details matter to you.
>
> In classic “Calloway” notation, the  new License field would become:
>
>      MIT and (ISC and MIT) and (AGPLv3 and MIT)
>
> However, I am taking the opportunity to convert the package to SPDX, and
> so the License will become:
>
>     (MIT AND (ISC AND MIT) AND (AGPL-3.0-only AND MIT))

Under our new License: field guidelines, a simple license expression
(just a license identifier, basically) wouldn't get repeated in a
conjunctive composite expression, even if it applies to multiple
separable components, and there ordinarily would be no reason to wrap
AND subexpressions in parentheses. I haven't looked at this package
but it might be that the License: field should be:

MIT AND ISC AND AGPL-3.0-only

See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-field/#_conjunctive_and_licensing

Richard
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