Hi David,
In the old Fedora system, "MIT" was a category shortname to refer to
many variations that would be different licenses under SPDX. See
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/update-existing-packages/#_mit
FWIW, here's how I checked how this text matched against the SPDX
License List to begin with:
- went to
https://github.com/diegojromerolopez/gelidum/blob/main/LICENSE
- highlight license text and used SPDX-diff browser plugin - which
showed me an exact match to MIT
This was an easy one. Sometimes, you need to do a bit of interpreting
with the SPDX-diff tool (see
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-audit-tools/#_spdx_lic...
Make sure to note the update in your commit comment, so it will get
counted by Miroslav's tracker!
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/update-existing-packages/#_cha...
I'm not sure what to say about license-check results.
Thanks,
Jilayne
On 5/2/23 5:59 AM, Justin W. Flory (he/him) wrote:
Hi David,
To the best of my knowledge, "MIT License" matches "MIT:Modern Style
with sublicense". Someone else on the list should probably confirm though.
The reason for the several MIT mappings is that often, projects claim
to use the MIT License but then add extra language that is not the
standard license text. So, there are various flavors of the MIT
License. The unusual flavors are often specific to a smaller project
or group of projects. Perhaps it would be better to distinguish the
Allowed Licenses list to better communicate which SPDX tag should be
used as the "default" MIT license. I also thought the docs were
unclear for someone who isn't immersed in licensing.
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 7:39 AM David Schwörer <david08741(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I see the MIT License on the allowed licenses page, see the attached
> screenshot. Unless you have a MIT license with special
modifications, you
> can use the "MIT" specifier.
Hi Justin,
So "MIT License" matches "MIT:Modern Style with sublicense"?
In that case that answers my question, but is there somewhere this
sort of mapping documented?
Best,
David
>
>
https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html
>
> Cheers,
> Justin (he/him)
> Sent from mobile
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