Re: SPDX - How to handle MIT and BSD

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V Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 08:53:09PM +0100, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a):
> There are two common ways to find out what SPDX identifier you should use in such cases.
> 
> 
> 1) You can use https://github.com/spdx/spdx-license-diff and use it to
> identify your license. This is a Chrome and Firefox plugin and allows you to
> select the text; and in the context menu, you can choose to identify the
> license. It will print, e.g., that it matches 60% of the MIT-feh license and
> highlight the difference. Or...
> 
> 
> 2) you can navigate to
> 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/
> 
> in the search box above the first table, you enter your license and filter
> the content. If you enter "MIT", it will find you 26 licenses. Out of them,
> 15 have "MIT" in the "Fedora abbreviation" column (Hmm, this should be
> changed to "legacy name"). Now you have to open the link in the "URL" column
> and find your package's license. This may look painful, but you usually find
> the correct license within a few clicks.
> 
>
SPDX has a web page <https://tools.spdx.org/app/check_license/> which can help
identify a license. It works to some degree. E.g. it operates on license
texts. Not on license declarations. It also requires the license without
a context. E.g. without warranty disclaimers. Without programming laguage
comment markers.

Though I usually resort to opening all MIT-like licenses, "X11" is one of
them, from an SPDX license list <https://spdx.org/licenses/> and comparing
them against my license.

-- Petr

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