Re: Additional SPDX questions for .NET 7 (dotnet7.0)

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On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:57 AM Omair Majid <omajid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jilayne,
>
> Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 1:07 PM Omair Majid <omajid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 4. What license is this file under?
> >>
> >>    https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/System.Text.RegularExpressions/tests/FunctionalTests/AttRegexTests.cs
> >>
> >>    Should I treat it as under MIT, like the license header at the top of
> >>    the file says, or under the separate license text on line 4 and
> >>    later? Or both? Does anyone know what's the SPDX identifier for the
> >>    license text on line 4 and later?
> >
> > I'd probably conclude 'both' based on limited information. Also, I
> > think the separate license text is something that ought to match to
> > SPDX "MIT" but doesn't, so I think the best thing to do here is to
> > submit an issue to https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML proposing
> > a change to the XML file
> > (https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/MIT.xml) that
> > specifies what "MIT" means as an SPDX identifier. Jilayne can probably
> > provide more helpful guidance here.
>
> Any advice here? The wording in the second half of the license has
> several textual differences from MIT. How should I handle this?
>

MIT is a category license in SPDX (for now), like how MIT and BSD are
in Fedora identifiers. It's an odd deviation, but I'm not sure what
we're supposed to do here either.




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