Re: msv (xsdlib) licensing review

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As for https://github.com/xmlark/msv/blob/main/docs/xsdlib/copyright.txt
I think this should be ignored.

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 2:24 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 9:00 AM Marián Konček <mkoncek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As part of the jaxb 4.0.2 -> 4.0.3 update, part of this package is
> > needed for its code generation. Therefore, I would like to package it in
> > Fedora. This package has complex licensing which is why I am asking for
> > a review. Note that I only need the "xsdlib" subdirectory.
> >
> > I only need a stripped-down version of this package as if by
> > downloading:
> > https://github.com/xmlark/msv/archive/refs/tags/msv-2022.7.tar.gz
> >
> > and running (inside the msv-msv-2022.7 directory):
> >
> > find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name 'xsdlib' -exec rm -rf {} +
> > rm -rf xsdlib/src/main/resources
> > rm -rf xsdlib/src/test
> > grep -l -r --ignore-case 'proprietary' | xargs rm -v
> >
> > Most problematic license files are: copyright.txt and license.txt in
> > https://github.com/xmlark/msv/tree/main/docs/xsdlib. To my knowledge,
> > all files that remained use explicit BSD-3-Clause or Apache-1.1.
> > Question is whether we could have removed the copyright.txt and
> > license.txt files in the first place.
> >
> > Current upstream: https://github.com/xmlark/msv
> > Previous package in Fedora (used different source repository):
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2576
> > Previous bug related to licensing:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=87684
> >
> > Also grep --ignore-case for "proprietary" "confidential", "nuclear".
>
> Can you create  a package just from that subset of the xsdlib
> directory as you indicated above?
>
> In those files, what I saw on a quick review was:
>
> - pom.xml : there's a Sun BSD license that is probably OK for Fedora
> but does not seem to match any known variant. (It's tempting to just
> ignore this but since it's probably OK we might as well add it.)
>
> - Oracle 3-clause BSD licenses: most of these seem to be BSD-3-Clause,
> but there was one for which SPDX would need to revise the markup, I
> think ( xsdlib/src/main/java/com/sun/msv/datatype/regexp/InternalImpl.java)
>
> - The Apache 1.1 license appearing on a number of source files does
> not quite match SPDX Apache-1.1, would require SPDX revision to the
> Apache-1.1 markup
>
> So these seem fairly nonproblematic but it would be helpful if you
> could create issues for these in fedora-license-data and then at
> github.com/spdx/license-list-XML.
>
> But if you need to package any of the other stuff in this repository
> that may complicate things further.
>
> Richard
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