Hi,
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@fedoraproject.org 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 :)
Hohum, github. That does seems to use a lot of proprietary javascript and doesn't allow reporting issues without a github account, which I don't have and don't really want. Too bad that seems to be the way to discuss with the SPDX legal team :{
They also have a mailing list but from what I understand it uses groups.io, a non-FOSS web service.
Hohum, unfortunate, but not entirely unsurprising for a Linux Foundation project :{
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.
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.
Thanks,
Mark
[*] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD#Hybrid_BSD_(half_BSD,_half_zlib)