On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello > > I have one question about one license previously marked as MIT. > > On 3/25/15 13:47, Tom Callaway wrote: > > On 03/13/2015 05:41 AM, Petr Šabata wrote: > > I found one more license in perl which I'm not sure about; > > according to the source comments, this comes from metamail: > > > Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) > > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for > > any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the > > above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all > > copies, and that the name of Bellcore not be used in advertising or > > publicity pertaining to this material without the specific, prior > > written permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore. > > BELLCORE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR > > SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS > > IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES. > > This is yet another MIT variant. Just use MIT here. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Old_Style_(Bellcore_variant) > > Shall I still use MIT or is it different license? > > Full source: > https://github.com/Dual-Life/mime-base64/blob/master/Base64.xs With Fedora's move to using SPDX expressions, this is no longer "MIT", which refers solely to licenses that "match" to https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/MIT.xml under the SPDX notion of what "match" means. Rather, this license looks pretty close to the ill-defined OSI-approved template legacy license known as "HPND" https://opensource.org/license/historical-php/, reflected in SPDX at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/HPND.xml Please submit an issue at fedora-license-data and also github.com/spdx/license-list-XML -- it's possible that either this license is treatable as SPDX "HPND" as-is (I don't think so, though), or perhaps SPDX can revise the HPND.xml file to make that so (I'm not sure, though, particularly given that HPND is an OSI-approved license). It's possible SPDX would want to create a new identifier for this one. (If this already matches to something on the SPDX license list other than HPND, it wasn't obvious to me.) Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
