On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 01:26:33PM +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 02. 01. 22 v 17:19 Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a):
>
> Testing rpm-specs/ipxe.spec
> No terminal defined for 'w' at line 1 col 8
>
> GPLv2 with additional permissions and BSD
> ^
>
> Expecting: {'AND', 'OR'}
>
> The license does appear to be accurate in the sense that it reflects
> the somewhat unusual license of iPXE.
>
> The problem is that
>
> GPLv2 with additional permissions
>
> is not valid short name from
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Software_License_List
Oh I see, I thought that the OCaml license ("LGPLv2+ with exceptions")
was somehow composed of <license> + "with exceptions". But I see from
the list that the whole thing is a permitted license.
> The License tag was never formally defined. If we agree that there can be
> anything, then let it be.
>
> Just most of our strings are in the form:
>
> license: "(" license ")" | license operator license | short_name
> operator: "and" | "or"
>
> where short_name is the identifier from Licensing:main.
>
> If we fix few exceptions like "license, license" then we will benefit from
>
> * unified syntax
>
> * machine readable string
>
> * automatic validation
>
> I recommend to track such exceptions in comments. E.g.
>
> # the actual license have additional permission allowing to ....
> License: GPLv2 and BSD
Well I'm not so sure since the license for OCaml software is certainly
not just LGPLv2+, and the way OCaml is linked makes it impossible for
distributors to meaningfully comply with the problematic subclause of
clause 2 of the LGPL, hence the need for a permissive exception. This
sounds like something we would need to record for automation.
Rich.
> Miroslav
>
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