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(a)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_z...