* Richard Fontana: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 9:04 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The SPDX reference pattern uses “Copyright (c)”, and the second >> paragraph is in ALL CAPS. Furthermore, the Boehm-GC text says >> “program” instead of “shellscript”. >> >> # Copyright 2018 B. Persson, Bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> # >> # This material is provided as is, with absolutely no warranty expressed >> # or implied. Any use is at your own risk. >> # >> # Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this shellscript >> # for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies. >> # Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted, >> # provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was >> # modified is included with the above copyright notice. > > The SPDX XML file for Boehm-GC: > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/Boehm-GC.xml > does not account for "shellscript" as an alternative to "program". > > In SPDX (https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2-draft/license-matching-guidelines-and-templates/) > Details of copyright notices are ignored for matching purposes and > matching is case insensitive. Fedora is basically adopting the SPDX > understanding of what "matching" means for purposes of using SPDX > identifiers. > > So probably what would need to be done here is getting SPDX to modify > the XML for Boehm-GC rather than assign a new identifier for this > variant. Björn has changed “shellscript” to “program”: <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/c/4580afce7cf577f324b7ba59fd44424d3d3b43ad?branch=rawhide Is this sufficient to match SPDX Boehm-GC, even without the ALL CAPS and (c) change? Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ 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
