On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 3:42 PM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 7:16 PM Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Fedora uses 'BSD' for a variety of licenses, many of which have specific > > SPDX identifiers. MIT and BSD are the most common problem areas for this > > situation. > > Right, but BSD is not in SPDX, it may be BSD-2-Clause > (or BSD-3-Clause....). If I see BSD, I know it is a (legacy) > Fedora id, and if it is BSD-2-Clause it should be SPDX. > > MIT is the case I am aware of where it is both a (legacy) > Fedora id, and a valid SPDX id, but can refer to different > underlying license terms. > > I am not saying that one can convert from Fedora BSD > to SPDX BSD-n-clause without examination (work!), but > if it has been converted it is obvious from the id being > used (well, except for MIT, and ???? others?) There's only one MIT license carve-out I know of: X11. The rest are classified the same. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
