Re: valgrind devel headers license tag (bzip2-1.0.6?)

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Hi Jilayne,

On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 18:45 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-11-25 at 01:49 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 01:18:22PM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 11:36 AM Mark Wielaard <mjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 09:41 -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > You could propose this change to the SPDX legal team by submitting an
> > > > > issue at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML but historically
> > > > > they've been very resistant to identifier deprecations (with the
> > > > > notable exception of the GPL identifiers :)
> > > 
> > > You could also ask Jilayne Lovejoy
> > > to consider it, she's one of the SPDX-legal leads and also reads this
> > > list.
> > 
> > Great. So yes, that would be nice. So Jilayne, if we could get a
> > generic identifier for this license statement, maybe just call it
> > 'Hybrid-BSD' [*], that would be really helpful.
> 
> This would still be really useful. If you know the history behind the
> version specific identifier, which is, as far as I can tell, not even
> used by bzip2 itself or by anyone redistributing bzip2, that would be
> helpful. There is a subpackage of Valgrind (valgrind-devel) that uses
> kind of a similar text, but in valgrind it is used as a kind of file-
> based GPL-exception with extra notices at the top and the bottom
> explaining what the larger work is for which the exception holds, and a
> disclaimer by the organisation that paid for the work (which I believe
> isn't legally significant, but Richard thinks is). See also
> https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/422

If you have time to look at the Hybrid-BSD license and which kind of
top/bottom "legal" notices are generic or not that would be really
appreciated.

> > BTW. I happen to be one of the upstream maintainers of bzip2 and of
> > valgrind, which both use this license variant for some of the code. So
> > we could do a release that explicitly uses a generic name for this if
> > that helps.
> > 
> > [*]
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD#Hybrid_BSD_(half_BSD,_half_zlib)

Thanks,

Mark
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