Re: Licenses without SPDX expression found in sane-frontends

[Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jilayne,

thank you for looking into it!

The texts are in attachments.

On 2/9/23 16:17, Jilayne Lovejoy wrote:

Hi Zdenek,

So, it's the exceptions that are not (or may not be) on the SPDX License List. Can you send me a link to the text for those?

Thanks,
Jilayne

On 2/9/23 8:13 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:

Hi all,

ppisar was doing the license review of the package when it arrived into EPEL 9 and proposed to update the SPEC file to the latest FPG. Since Fedora Licensing now requires SPDX names for licenses, he found two of them without SPDX name in sane-frontends:

GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-2.0-like exception

GPL-2.0-or-later WITH gnu-javamail-exception-like exception

The former is used in config.guess+config.guess files generated Autoconf, the latter is a license which is used in SANE project.

Would it be possible to review the licenses and assign a SPDX identifiers for them? Or make an agreement to use just GPL-2.0-or-later?

Thank you in advance!

Zdenek

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